Aggregated aggressiveness control on groups of TCP flows Conference Paper uri icon

abstract

  • The use of multiple concurrent parallel TCP flows is an easy way to achieve higher speed reliable data transfers. However, parallel TCP flows are inherently unfair with respect to single TCP flows. We suggest a new scheme called TCP-P, which controls aggressiveness of a group of parallel TCP flows by regulating their total aggressiveness (or unfairness) to be comparable to a single TCP flow, or any multiple thereof. TCP-P makes a group of N parallel TCP flows appear to other flows like k separable TCP flows - i.e., have strength k - through appropriate manipulations of increase and decrease behavior of the congestion windows of the TCP flows in the group. We implemented our scheme as part of Linux and experimental results show that the proposed scheme effectively controls aggressiveness of parallel TCP flows. IFIP International Federation for Information Processing 2005.

published proceedings

  • NETWORKING 2005: NETWORKING TECHNOLOGIES, SERVICES, AND PROTOCOLS; PERFORMANCE OF COMPUTER AND COMMUNICATION NETWORKS; MOBILE AND WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEMS

author list (cited authors)

  • Cho, S., & Bettati, R.

citation count

  • 4

complete list of authors

  • Cho, S||Bettati, R

editor list (cited editors)

  • Boutaba, R., Almeroth, K. C., Puigjaner, R., Shen, S. X., & Black, J. P.

publication date

  • September 2005