TCP behavior in sub-packet regimes

Jay Chen; Janardhan Iyengar; Lakshminarayanan Subramanian; Bryan Ford

doi:10.1145/2007116.2007135

TCP behavior in sub-packet regimes

Jay Chen, Janardhan Iyengar, Lakshminarayanan Subramanian, Bryan Ford

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Abstract

Many network links in developing regions operate in the sub-packet regime, an environment where the typical per-flow throughput is less than 1 packet per round-trip time. TCP and other common congestion control protocols break down in the sub-packet regime, resulting in severe unfairness, high packet loss rates, and flow silences due to repetitive time-outs. To understand TCP's behavior in this regime, we propose a model particularly tailored to high packet loss-rates and relatively small congestion window sizes. We validate the model under a variety of network conditions.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	SIGMETRICS'11 - Proceedings of the 2011 ACM SIGMETRICS International Conference on Measurement and Modeling of Computer Systems
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
Pages	157-158
Number of pages	2
Volume	39
Edition	1 SPEC. ISSUE
ISBN (Print)	9781450302623
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/2007116.2007135
State	Published - 2011
Event	2011 ACM SIGMETRICS International Conference on Measurement and Modeling of Computer Systems, SIGMETRICS 2011 - San Jose, United States Duration: Jun 7 2011 → Jun 11 2011

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Conference	2011 ACM SIGMETRICS International Conference on Measurement and Modeling of Computer Systems, SIGMETRICS 2011
Country/Territory	United States
City	San Jose
Period	6/7/11 → 6/11/11

Keywords

Congestion control
Low bandwidth networks
TCP

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Software
Hardware and Architecture
Computer Networks and Communications

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TCP behavior in sub-packet regimes. / Chen, Jay; Iyengar, Janardhan; Subramanian, Lakshminarayanan et al.
SIGMETRICS'11 - Proceedings of the 2011 ACM SIGMETRICS International Conference on Measurement and Modeling of Computer Systems. Vol. 39 1 SPEC. ISSUE. ed. Association for Computing Machinery, 2011. p. 157-158.

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

Chen, J, Iyengar, J, Subramanian, L & Ford, B 2011, TCP behavior in sub-packet regimes. in SIGMETRICS'11 - Proceedings of the 2011 ACM SIGMETRICS International Conference on Measurement and Modeling of Computer Systems. 1 SPEC. ISSUE edn, vol. 39, Association for Computing Machinery, pp. 157-158, 2011 ACM SIGMETRICS International Conference on Measurement and Modeling of Computer Systems, SIGMETRICS 2011, San Jose, United States, 6/7/11. https://doi.org/10.1145/2007116.2007135

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