Use of Competition Detection in TCP for Fair and Effective Utilization of Network Bandwidth Conference Paper

abstract

• The fairness (or TCP-friendliness) of recent high-speed TCP proposals for high bandwidth-delay product networks is generally poor. We believe that the lack of TCP-friendliness of high-speed TCP proposals stems from their ineffectiveness in detecting competing TCP flows. We suggest a competition detection mechanism for a single TCP flow to detect the presence of competing TCP flows and propose a new TCP, called Adaptive TCP (A-TCP), which uses the competition detection mechanism to control its aggressiveness: If it does not detect competing flows, a single A-TCP flow increases its sending rate aggressively in order to highly utilize the network. Otherwise, it behaves like a standard TCP flow to fairly share network resources with competing flows. We implemented A-TCP as part of Linux as well as in ns-2. Experimental results show that A-TCP achieves better fairness than existing high-speed TCP proposals. 2006 IEEE.

name of conference

• IEEE Globecom 2006

authors

• Bettati, Riccardo

published proceedings

• GLOBECOM 2006 - 2006 IEEE GLOBAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS CONFERENCE

author list (cited authors)

• Cho, S., & Bettati, R.

citation count

• 3

complete list of authors

• Cho, Soohyun||Bettati, Riccardo

publication date

• November 2006

publisher

• Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)  Publisher

published in

• n1930-529XISSN  Journal

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1109/glocom.2006.171

International Standard Book Number (ISBN) 10

• 142440357X

International Standard Book Number (ISBN) 13

• 9781424403578

start page

• 1

end page

• 6

URL

• https://doi.org/10.1109/GLOBECOM9936.2006