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Performance Enhancement of High-Speed TCP Protocols using Pacing  

Choi Young Soo (경북대학교 전자전기컴퓨터학부)
Lee Gang Won (경북대학교 전자전기컴퓨터학부)
Cho You Ze (경북대학교 전자전기컴퓨터학부)
Han Tae Man (한국전자통신연구원)
Publication Information
The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences / v.29, no.12B, 2004 , pp. 1052-1062 More about this Journal
Abstract
Recent studies have pointed out that existing high-speed TCP protocols have a severe unfairness and TCP friendliness problem. As the congestion window achieved by a high-speed TCP connection can be quite large, there is a strong possibility that the sender will transmit a large burst of packets. As such, the current congestion control mechanisms of high-speed TCP can lead to bursty traffic flows in hi인 speed networks, with a negative impact on both TCP friendliness and RTT unfairness. The proposed solution to these problems is to evenly space the data sent into the network over an entire round-trip time. Accordingly, the current paper evaluates this approach with a high bandwidth-delay product network and shows that pacing offers better TCP friendliness and fairness without degrading the bandwidth scalability.
Keywords
Pacing; Congestion control; High-Speed TCP; Fairness; TCP Friendliness;
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