• The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• v.18 no.1
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• pp.15-21
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• 2018

Per-packet scheduling is more suitable than per-flow scheduling to reduce the flow completion time by efficiently utilizing resources in data center networks. Recently, many per-packet scheduling schemes utilizing multiple paths have been proposed. However, to mitigate the negative effect of packet reordering on TCP performance, most of the schemes require supplemental measures such as putting packets in order at the lower layer. In this study, we investigate how well DCTCP, which is a representative TCP for data center networks, performs with per-packet scheduling through simulation. Simulation results show that DCTCP keeps the queue length short but that DCTCP shows low fairness due to the way of reducing the congestion window by ECN.