A report on recent developments in TCP congestion control

Author

Floyd, Sally

Volume

39

Issue

4

fYear

2001

fDate

4/1/2001 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

84

Lastpage

90

Abstract

This article discusses several changes to TCP´s congestion control, either proposed or in progress. The changes to TCP include a limited transmit mechanism for transmitting new packets upon receipt of one or two duplicate acknowledgments, and a SACK-based mechanism for detecting and responding to unnecessary fast retransmits or retransmit timeouts. These changes to TCP are designed to avoid unnecessary retransmit timeouts, to correct unnecessary fast retransmits or retransmit timeouts resulting from reordered or delayed packets, and to assist the development of viable mechanisms for corruption notification. The changes in the network include explicit congestion notification, which builds on the addition of active queue management

Keywords

packet switching; queueing theory; telecommunication congestion control; telecommunication network management; transport protocols; SACK-based mechanism; TCP congestion control; active queue management; congestion notification; corruption notification; delayed packets; duplicate acknowledgments; fast retransmits; limited transmit mechanism; packet transmission; reordered packets; retransmit timeouts; Additives; Bandwidth; Clocks; Communication system control; Costs; Delay; Filtering; Proposals; Robust control; Standardization;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Communications Magazine, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0163-6804

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/35.917508

Filename

917508