Arcturus: A Cloud Overlay Network for Global Accelerator with Enhanced Performance and Stability

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Main Authors: Liu, Matthew Yang, Chen, Chuang, Lv, Pengcheng, Guo, Hui, Zhang, Yanan, Wang, Cong, Li, Yusen, Li, Zhenyu, Tian, Yu-Chu
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author Liu, Matthew Yang
Chen, Chuang
Lv, Pengcheng
Guo, Hui
Zhang, Yanan
Wang, Cong
Li, Yusen
Li, Zhenyu
Tian, Yu-Chu
author_facet Liu, Matthew Yang
Chen, Chuang
Lv, Pengcheng
Guo, Hui
Zhang, Yanan
Wang, Cong
Li, Yusen
Li, Zhenyu
Tian, Yu-Chu
contents Global Accelerator (GA) services play a vital role in ensuring low-latency, high-reliability communication for real-time interactive applications. However, existing GA offerings are tightly bound to specific cloud providers, resulting in high costs, rigid deployment, and limited flexibility, especially for large-scale or budget-sensitive deployments. Arcturus is a cloud-native GA framework that revisits the design of GA systems by leveraging low-cost, heterogeneous cloud resources across multiple providers. Rather than relying on fixed, high-end infrastructure, Arcturus dynamically constructs its acceleration network and balances performance, stability, and resource efficiency. To achieve this, Arcturus introduces a two-plane design: a forwarding plane that builds a proxy network with adaptive control, and a scheduling plane that coordinates load and routing through lightweight, quantitative optimization. Evaluations under millions of RPS show that Arcturus outperforms commercial GA services by up to 1.7X in acceleration performance, reduces cost by 71%, and maintains over 80% resource efficiency--demonstrating efficient use of cloud resources at scale.
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spellingShingle Arcturus: A Cloud Overlay Network for Global Accelerator with Enhanced Performance and Stability
Liu, Matthew Yang
Chen, Chuang
Lv, Pengcheng
Guo, Hui
Zhang, Yanan
Wang, Cong
Li, Yusen
Li, Zhenyu
Tian, Yu-Chu
Networking and Internet Architecture
Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing
Global Accelerator (GA) services play a vital role in ensuring low-latency, high-reliability communication for real-time interactive applications. However, existing GA offerings are tightly bound to specific cloud providers, resulting in high costs, rigid deployment, and limited flexibility, especially for large-scale or budget-sensitive deployments. Arcturus is a cloud-native GA framework that revisits the design of GA systems by leveraging low-cost, heterogeneous cloud resources across multiple providers. Rather than relying on fixed, high-end infrastructure, Arcturus dynamically constructs its acceleration network and balances performance, stability, and resource efficiency. To achieve this, Arcturus introduces a two-plane design: a forwarding plane that builds a proxy network with adaptive control, and a scheduling plane that coordinates load and routing through lightweight, quantitative optimization. Evaluations under millions of RPS show that Arcturus outperforms commercial GA services by up to 1.7X in acceleration performance, reduces cost by 71%, and maintains over 80% resource efficiency--demonstrating efficient use of cloud resources at scale.
title Arcturus: A Cloud Overlay Network for Global Accelerator with Enhanced Performance and Stability
topic Networking and Internet Architecture
Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.10928