Equation-Based Congestion Control for Unicast Applications: the Extended Version
Title | Equation-Based Congestion Control for Unicast Applications: the Extended Version |
Publication Type | Technical Report |
Year of Publication | 2000 |
Authors | Floyd, S., Handley M., Padhye J., & Widmer J. |
Other Numbers | 1178 |
Abstract | This paper proposes a mechanism for equation-based congestion control for unicast traffic. Most best-effort traffic in the current Internet is well-served by the dominant transport protocol TCP. However, traffic such as best-effort unicast streaming multimedia could find use for a TCP-friendly congestion control mechanism that refrains from reducing the sending rate in half in response to a single packet drop. With our mechanism, the sender explicitly adjusts sending rate as a function of the measured rate of loss events, where a loss event consists of one or more packets dropped within a single round-trip time. We use both simulations and experiments over the Internet to explore performance.Equation-based congestion control is also a promising avenue of development for congestion control of multicast traffic, and so an additional reason for this work is to lay a sound basis for the later development of multicast congestion control. |
URL | http://www.icsi.berkeley.edu/ftp/global/pub/techreports/2000/tr-00-003.pdf |
Bibliographic Notes | ICSI Technical Report TR-00-003 |
Abbreviated Authors | S. Floyd, M. Handley, J. Padhye, and J. Widmer |
ICSI Research Group | Networking and Security |
ICSI Publication Type | Technical Report |