Title
A new TCP/AQM for stable operation in fast networks
Abstract
This paper is aimed at designing a congestion control system that scales gracefully with network capacity, providing high utilization, low queueing delay, dynamic stability, and fairness among users. In earlier work we had developed fluid-level control laws that achieve the first three objectives for arbitrary networks and delays, but were forced to constrain the resource allocation policy. In this paper we extend the theory to include dynamics at TCP sources, preserving the earlier features at fast time-scales, but permitting sources to match their steady-state preferences, provided a bound on round-trip-times is known. We develop two packet-level implementations of this protocol, using (i) ECN marking, and (ii) queueing delay, as means of communicating the con- gestion measure from links to sources. We discuss parameter choices and demonstrate using ns-2 simulations the stability of the protocol and its equi- librium features in terms of utilization, queueing and fairness. We also demonstrate the scalability of these features to increases in capacity, delay, and load, in comparison with other deployed and proposed protocols.
Year
DOI
Venue
2003
10.1109/INFCOM.2003.1208662
INFOCOM 2003. Twenty-Second Annual Joint Conference of the IEEE Computer and Communications. IEEE Societies
Keywords
Field
DocType
queueing theory,resource allocation,stability,telecommunication congestion control,transport protocols,TCP/AQM,active queue management,arbitrary networks,congestion control system design,dynamic stability,explicit congestion notification marking,high utilization,network capacity,ns-2 simulations,packet-level implementations,queueing delay,resource allocation policy,round-trip-times,time-scales
Computer science,Active queue management,Computer network,Layered queueing network,Resource allocation,Queueing theory,Network congestion,TCP Friendly Rate Control,Distributed computing,Explicit Congestion Notification,Scalability
Conference
Volume
ISSN
ISBN
1
0743-166X
0-7803-7752-4
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
35
3.12
14
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Fernando Paganini139628.97
Zhikui Wang2129171.29
S. H. Low35999585.58
Doyle J C43437499.39