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Title

Congestion control with multi-packet feedback

Author(s)

Qazi, Ihsan Ayyub;  Andrew, Lachlan L. H.;  Znati, Taieb

Abstract

Many congestion control protocols use explicit feedback from the network to achieve high performance. Most of these either require more bits for feedback than are available in the IP header or incur performance limitations due to inaccurate congestion feedback. There has been recent interest in protocols that obtain high-resolution estimates of congestion by combining the explicit congestion notification (ECN) marks of multiple packets, and using this to guide multiplicative increase, additive increase, multiplicative decrease (MI-AI-MD) window adaptation. This paper studies the potential of such approaches, both analytically and by simulation. The evaluation focuses on a new protocol called Binary Marking Congestion Control (BMCC). It is shown that these schemes can quickly acquire unused capacity, quickly approach a fair rate distribution, and have relatively smooth sending rates, even on high bandwidth-delay product networks. This is achieved while maintaining low average queue length and negligible packet loss. Using extensive simulations, we show that BMCC outperforms XCP, VCP, MLCP, CUBIC, CTCP, SACK, and in some cases RCP, in terms of average flow completion times. Suggestions are also given for the incremental deployment of BMCC.

Publication type

Journal article

Research centre

Swinburne University of Technology. Faculty of Information and Communication Technologies. Centre for Advanced Internet Architectures

Source

IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, Vol. 20, no. 6 (Dec 2012), pp. 1721-1733

Publication year

2012

FOR Code(s)

0805 Distributed Computing

Keyword(s)

Active queue management;  Congestion control;  Explicit congestion notification;  TCP;  Transmission control protocol

Publisher

IEEE

ISSN

1063-6692

Publisher URL

http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TNET.2012.2188838

Copyright

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Research Projects

Efficient and fair traffic control for a multi-service internet, Australian Research Council grant number DP0985322
Increasing internet energy and cost efficiency by improving higher-layer protocols, Australian Research Council grant number FT0991594

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