Section: Software

FLOC: Flow control

Participants : Pascale Vicat-Blanc Primet, Sébastien Soudan.

This software solves the problem of enforcing a rate allocation profile made by an external bandwidth scheduler in a packet network. FLOC is the daemon present on end machine responsible to enforce the multi-interval bandwidth allocation profile received from a scheduler to a socket identified by a token and registered by user applications. FLOC changes GNU/Linux kernel's qdisc configuration according to current date and profile so that senders can only send at a given time at the rate they are allowed to. FLOC is distributed under LGPL license and downloadable at : http://www.ens-lyon.fr/LIP/RESO/Software

• Type: software 

• Scientific problem addressed: Explicit flow rate control

• Functional description: Limitation and triggering of flow rate.

• nationale diffusion, deployment in GRID5000,

• reference implementation in EC-GIN community,

• Status: free software

• State: prototype,

• APP: version 0.12 du 17 février 2009: IDDN.FR.001.290009.000.S.P.2009.000.10200

• Transfer to LinKTiss Start-Up