Analysis of source policy and its effects on TCP in rate-controlled ATM networks

Author

Kalampoukas, Lampros ; Varma, Anujan

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Eng., California Univ., Santa Cruz, CA, USA

Volume

6

Issue

5

fYear

1998

fDate

10/1/1998 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

599

Lastpage

610

Abstract

This paper provides an analysis of the source policy in the rate-based congestion control scheme developed by the Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) Forum for available bit rate service and derives approximate analytical closed-form expressions to describe the rate increase process. These approximations are used to analyze the impact of the source algorithm on the TCP slow-start process operating over a rate-controlled ATM network. The results show that the increase in TCP congestion window ramp-up time is noticeable when the round-trip delay is small. The results are verified by simulation

Keywords

approximation theory; asynchronous transfer mode; broadband networks; delays; packet switching; telecommunication congestion control; transport protocols; Asynchronous Transfer Mode Forum; TCP slow-start process; approximate analytical closed-form expressions; available bit rate service; broadband packet networks; congestion window ramp-up time; rate increase process; rate-based congestion control; rate-controlled ATM networks; round-trip delay; simulation; source algorithm; source policy; Algorithm design and analysis; Asynchronous transfer mode; Bandwidth; Bit rate; Closed-form solution; Communication system control; Communication system traffic control; Delay effects; Intelligent networks; Switches;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Networking, IEEE/ACM Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1063-6692

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/90.731195

Filename

731195