Taxonomy and Evaluation of TCP-Friendly Congestion-Control Schemes on Fairness, Aggressiveness, and Responsiveness Export

@article{tsao:taxonomy, abstract = {Many TCP-friendly congestion control schemes have been proposed to pursue the TCP-equivalence criterion, which states that a TCP-equivalent flow should have the same throughput with TCP if it experiences identical network conditions as TCP. Additionally, the throughput should converge as fast as TCP when the packet-loss conditions change. This study classifies eight typical TCP-friendly schemes according to their underlying policies on fairness, aggressiveness, and responsiveness. The schemes are evaluated to verify whether they meet TCP-equivalence and TCP-equal share. TCP-equal share is a more realistic but more challenging criterion than TCP-equivalence and states that a flow should have the same throughput with TCP if competing with TCP for the same bottleneck. Simulation results indicate that one of the selected schemes, TCP-friendly rate control (TFRC), meets both criteria under more testing scenarios than the others. Additionally, the results under non-periodic losses, low-multiplexing, two-state losses, and bursty losses reveal the causes that bring fault cases to the schemes. Finally, appropriate policies are recommended for an ideal scheme.}, author = {Tsao, Shih-Ching and Lai, Yuan-Cheng and Lin, Ying-Dar}, citeulike-article-id = {4797019}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/MNET.2007.4395105}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=4395105}, citeulike-linkout-2 = {http://speed.cis.nctu.edu.tw/~ydlin/04395105.pdf}, doi = {10.1109/MNET.2007.4395105}, journal = {IEEE Network}, keywords = {congestion-control, fairness, sh276, tcp}, number = {6}, pages = {6--15}, posted-at = {2009-06-10 13:38:36}, priority = {2}, title = {Taxonomy and Evaluation of TCP-Friendly Congestion-Control Schemes on Fairness, Aggressiveness, and Responsiveness}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/MNET.2007.4395105}, volume = {21}, year = {2007} }

TY - JOUR ID - tsao:taxonomy L3 - citeulike-article-id:4797019 N2 - Many TCP-friendly congestion control schemes have been proposed to pursue the TCP-equivalence criterion, which states that a TCP-equivalent flow should have the same throughput with TCP if it experiences identical network conditions as TCP. Additionally, the throughput should converge as fast as TCP when the packet-loss conditions change. This study classifies eight typical TCP-friendly schemes according to their underlying policies on fairness, aggressiveness, and responsiveness. The schemes are evaluated to verify whether they meet TCP-equivalence and TCP-equal share. TCP-equal share is a more realistic but more challenging criterion than TCP-equivalence and states that a flow should have the same throughput with TCP if competing with TCP for the same bottleneck. Simulation results indicate that one of the selected schemes, TCP-friendly rate control (TFRC), meets both criteria under more testing scenarios than the others. Additionally, the results under non-periodic losses, low-multiplexing, two-state losses, and bursty losses reveal the causes that bring fault cases to the schemes. Finally, appropriate policies are recommended for an ideal scheme. IS - 6 JF - IEEE Network EP - 15 TI - Taxonomy and Evaluation of TCP-Friendly Congestion-Control Schemes on Fairness, Aggressiveness, and Responsiveness VL - 21 SP - 6 KW - congestion-control KW - fairness KW - sh276 KW - tcp AU - Tsao, Shih-Ching AU - Lai, Yuan-Cheng AU - Lin, Ying-Dar PY - 2007/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/MNET.2007.4395105 ER -