Publication Type
Conference Proceeding Article
Version
acceptedVersion
Publication Date
10-2001
Abstract
The introduction of service differentiation in the Internet implies that the residual bandwidth available to best-effort traffic becomes highly variable. We explore the design of a rapidly-reactive congestion control framework, where the ECN-aware best-effort flows aggressively go after any unused capacity. By making routers mark packets in a much more aggressive manner, we are able to achieve fast backoff in the network without resorting to the TCP's current drastic step of halving the congestion window. Simulations indicate that our ECN-mod protocol is better than ECN-NewReno in exploiting rapid variations in the available bandwidth. Moreover, the milder backoff policy of ECN-mod also makes the link utilization less dependent on the exact values of the parameters in the router marking function.
Discipline
Software Engineering
Research Areas
Software and Cyber-Physical Systems
Publication
MILCOM 2001: Proceedings: Virginia, 28-31 October
First Page
719
Last Page
725
ISBN
9780780372252
Identifier
10.1109/MILCOM.2001.985928
Publisher
IEEE
City or Country
Piscataway, NJ
Citation
MISRA, Archan and OTT, Teunis.
Jointly Coordinating ECN and TCP for Rapid Adaptation to Varying Bandwidth. (2001). MILCOM 2001: Proceedings: Virginia, 28-31 October. 719-725.
Available at: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/713
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Authors
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Additional URL
https://doi.org/10.1109/MILCOM.2001.985928