Experience in developing a high availability and continuous TCP using OpenAIS and TCPCP

Abstract

It has become one of the basic requirements for the service providers to deliver highly available services to meet the customers\' critical needs. However, a highly available service does not guarantee that the service is delivered continuously from the user\'s point of view. In this paper, we share the experience of developing high-availability and continuous TCP using open source OpenAIS and TCPCP/TCPCP2. We describe the main system design for building such systems. We specifically discuss two of the problems that need to be overcome under this kind of design model. For each problem and its corresponding resolution, we show a simulation using ns2 simulator, which provides a deeper insight into the problems for further studies. We also develop a simple application which uses OpenAIS and TCPCP2 to achieve its high availability and service continuity. The results indicate that a high availability and service continuity service can be obtained with minor degradation in performance.