Publication Details
Title: Equation-Based Congestion Control for Unicast Applications: the Extended Version
Author: S. Floyd, M. Handley, J. Padhye, and J. Widmer
Group: ICSI Technical Reports
Date: March 2000
PDF: ftp://ftp.icsi.berkeley.edu/pub/techreports/2000/tr-00-003.pdf
Overview:
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.
Bibliographic Information:
ICSI Technical Report TR-00-003
Bibliographic Reference:
S. Floyd, M. Handley, J. Padhye, and J. Widmer. Equation-Based Congestion Control for Unicast Applications: the Extended Version. ICSI Technical Report TR-00-003, March 2000
Author: S. Floyd, M. Handley, J. Padhye, and J. Widmer
Group: ICSI Technical Reports
Date: March 2000
PDF: ftp://ftp.icsi.berkeley.edu/pub/techreports/2000/tr-00-003.pdf
Overview:
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.
Bibliographic Information:
ICSI Technical Report TR-00-003
Bibliographic Reference:
S. Floyd, M. Handley, J. Padhye, and J. Widmer. Equation-Based Congestion Control for Unicast Applications: the Extended Version. ICSI Technical Report TR-00-003, March 2000