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SSthreshless Start: A Sender-Side TCP Intelligence for Long Fat Network
Measurement shows that 85% of TCP flows in the internet are short-lived flows
that stay most of their operation in the TCP startup phase. However, many
previous studies indicate that the traditional TCP Slow Start algorithm does
not perform well, especially in long fat networks. Two obvious problems are
known to impact the Slow Start performance, which are the blind initial setting
of the Slow Start threshold and the aggressive increase of the probing rate
during the startup phase regardless of the buffer sizes along the path. Current
efforts focusing on tuning the Slow Start threshold and/or probing rate during
the startup phase have not been considered very effective, which has prompted
an investigation with a different approach. In this paper, we present a novel
TCP startup method, called threshold-less slow start or SSthreshless Start,
which does not need the Slow Start threshold to operate. Instead, SSthreshless
Start uses the backlog status at bottleneck buffer to adaptively adjust probing
rate which allows better seizing of the available bandwidth. Comparing to the
traditional and other major modified startup methods, our simulation results
show that SSthreshless Start achieves significant performance improvement
during the startup phase. Moreover, SSthreshless Start scales well with a wide
range of buffer size, propagation delay and network bandwidth. Besides, it
shows excellent friendliness when operating simultaneously with the currently
popular TCP NewReno connections.Comment: 25 pages, 10 figures, 7 table
Active Queue Management for Fair Resource Allocation in Wireless Networks
This paper investigates the interaction between end-to-end flow control and MAC-layer scheduling on wireless links. We consider a wireless network with multiple users receiving information from a common access point; each user suffers fading, and a scheduler allocates the channel based on channel quality,but subject to fairness and latency considerations. We show that the fairness property of the scheduler is compromised by the transport layer flow control of TCP New Reno. We provide a receiver-side control algorithm, CLAMP, that remedies this situation. CLAMP works at a receiver to control a TCP sender by setting the TCP receiver's advertised window limit, and this allows the scheduler to allocate bandwidth fairly between the users
Will TCP work in mmWave 5G Cellular Networks?
The vast available spectrum in the millimeter wave (mmWave) bands offers the
possibility of multi-Gbps data rates for fifth generation (5G) cellular
networks. However, mmWave capacity can be highly intermittent due to the
vulnerability of mmWave signals to blockages and delays in directional
searching. Such highly variable links present unique challenges for adaptive
control mechanisms in transport layer protocols and end-to-end applications.
This paper considers the fundamental question of whether TCP - the most widely
used transport protocol - will work in mmWave cellular systems. The paper
provides a comprehensive simulation study of TCP considering various factors
such as the congestion control algorithm, including the recently proposed TCP
BBR, edge vs. remote servers, handover and multi- connectivity, TCP packet size
and 3GPP-stack parameters. We show that the performance of TCP on mmWave links
is highly dependent on different combinations of these parameters, and identify
the open challenges in this area.Comment: 7 pages, 4 figures, 2 tables. To be published in the IEEE
Communication Magazin
A survey of performance enhancement of transmission control protocol (TCP) in wireless ad hoc networks
This Article is provided by the Brunel Open Access Publishing Fund - Copyright @ 2011 Springer OpenTransmission control protocol (TCP), which provides reliable end-to-end data delivery, performs well in traditional wired network environments, while in wireless ad hoc networks, it does not perform well. Compared to wired networks, wireless ad hoc networks have some specific characteristics such as node mobility and a shared medium. Owing to these specific characteristics of wireless ad hoc networks, TCP faces particular problems with, for example, route failure, channel contention and high bit error rates. These factors are responsible for the performance degradation of TCP in wireless ad hoc networks. The research community has produced a wide range of proposals to improve the performance of TCP in wireless ad hoc networks. This article presents a survey of these proposals (approaches). A classification of TCP improvement proposals for wireless ad hoc networks is presented, which makes it easy to compare the proposals falling under the same category. Tables which summarize the approaches for quick overview are provided. Possible directions for further improvements in this area are suggested in the conclusions. The aim of the article is to enable the reader to quickly acquire an overview of the state of TCP in wireless ad hoc networks.This study is partly funded by Kohat University of Science & Technology (KUST),
Pakistan, and the Higher Education Commission, Pakistan
A Network Congestion control Protocol (NCP)
The transmission control protocol (TCP) which is the dominant
congestion control protocol at the transport layer is proved to have
many performance problems with the growth of the Internet. TCP for
instance results in throughput degradation for high bandwidth delay
product networks and is unfair for flows with high round trip delays.
There have been many patches and modifications to TCP all of which
inherit the problems of TCP in spite of some performance improve-
ments.
On the other hand there are clean-slate design approaches of the
Internet. The eXplicit Congestion control Protocol (XCP) and the
Rate Control Protocol (RCP) are the prominent clean slate congestion
control protocols. Nonetheless, the XCP protocol is also proved to
have its own performance problems some of which are its unfairness
to long flows (flows with high round trip delay), and many per-packet
computations at the router. As shown in this paper RCP also makes
gross approximation to its important component that it may only give
the performance reports shown in the literature for specific choices of
its parameter values and traffic patterns.
In this paper we present a new congestion control protocol called
Network congestion Control Protocol (NCP). We show that NCP can
outperform both TCP, XCP and RCP in terms of among other things
fairness and file download times.unpublishe
Agile-SD: A Linux-based TCP Congestion Control Algorithm for Supporting High-speed and Short-distance Networks
Recently, high-speed and short-distance networks are widely deployed and
their necessity is rapidly increasing everyday. This type of networks is used
in several network applications; such as Local Area Networks (LAN) and Data
Center Networks (DCN). In LANs and DCNs, high-speed and short-distance networks
are commonly deployed to connect between computing and storage elements in
order to provide rapid services. Indeed, the overall performance of such
networks is significantly influenced by the Congestion Control Algorithm (CCA)
which suffers from the problem of bandwidth under-utilization, especially if
the applied buffer regime is very small. In this paper, a novel loss-based CCA
tailored for high-speed and Short-Distance (SD) networks, namely Agile-SD, has
been proposed. The main contribution of the proposed CCA is to implement the
mechanism of agility factor. Further, intensive simulation experiments have
been carried out to evaluate the performance of Agile-SD compared to Compound
and Cubic which are the default CCAs of the most commonly used operating
systems. The results of the simulation experiments show that the proposed CCA
outperforms the compared CCAs in terms of average throughput, loss ratio and
fairness, especially when a small buffer is applied. Moreover, Agile-SD shows
lower sensitivity to the buffer size change and packet error rate variation
which increases its efficiency.Comment: 12 Page
Evaluation of TCP Based Congestion Control Algorithms Over High-Speed Networks
The Additive Increase Multiplicative Decrease (AIMD) algorithm of the Transport Control Protocol (TCP) had worked remarkably well over low speed networks and had guaranteed fairness to the users all over these years, but at present, the demands for transferring large quantities of data over very high-speed networks are increasing at a tremendous rate. Because of its AIMD algorithm to control its window growth function accompanied by a slow response function which is inadequate over high-speed links, TCP has been proven to underutilize the available network bandwidth and leave a considerable amount of unused bandwidth. To overcome this limitation of TCP, the network research community came up with a number of TCP variants: HSTCP, STCP, BIC TCP, CUBIC, HTCP, and FAST TCP. All these protocols differ in the window growth policy to utilize the available bandwidth over a high-speed link. Various tests have shown that these protocols successfully utilize the link but at the same time they are not able to guarantee fairness to the other flows in the network. In this work, we aim to explore the following research questions: ○ Explore how tuning affects the performance of TCP and over 10G networks. ○ Compare TCP variants over a high-loss back-to-back environment In future, this work can be further extended in exploring the following two questions ○ Explore Performance Metrics for fair comparison of protocols over 10G back-to-back links ○ Move towards designing a congestion control protocol for back-to-back high-speed (Gigabit) link
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