Towards Experimental Evaluation of Explicit Congestion Control Conference Paper uri icon

abstract

  • Innovative efforts to provide a clean-slate design of congestion control for future high-speed heterogeneous networks have recently led to the development of explicit congestion control. These methods [6], [16], [17], [39] rely on multi-byte router feedback and aim to contribute to the design of a more scalable Internet of tomorrow. However, experimental evaluation and deployment experience with these approaches, especially in high-capacity networks and multi-link settings, is still missing from the literature. This paper aims to fill this void and investigate the behavior of these methods in single and multi-link topologies involving real systems and gigabit networks. We implement four recent protocols XCP [17], JetMax [39], RCP [6], and PIQI-RCP [16] in the existing Linux TCP/IP stack [24] in a manner that is transparent to applications and conduct experiments in Emulab [7] using a variety of network configurations. Our experiments not only confirm the known behavior of these methods, but also demonstrate their previously undocumented properties. 2008 IEEE.

name of conference

  • 2008 16th Interntional Workshop on Quality of Service

published proceedings

  • 2010 IEEE 18th International Workshop on Quality of Service (IWQoS)

author list (cited authors)

  • Jain, S., Zhang, Y., & Loguinov, D.

citation count

  • 2

complete list of authors

  • Jain, Saurabh||Zhang, Yueping||Loguinov, Dmitri

editor list (cited editors)

  • Berg, H., & Karlsson, G.

publication date

  • June 2008