A unified framework for modeling TCP-Vegas, TCP-SACK, and TCP-Reno

Author

Wierman, Adam ; Osogami, Takayuki

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Carnegie Mellon Univ., Pittsburgh, PA, USA

fYear

2003

fDate

12-15 Oct. 2003

Firstpage

269

Lastpage

278

Abstract

A general analytical framework for the modeling and analysis of TCP variations is presented. The framework allows the modeling of multiple variations of TCP, including TCP-Vegas, TCP-SACK, and TCP-Reno, under general network situations. In particular, the framework allows us to propose the first analytical model of TCP-Vegas for arbitrary on-off traffic that is able to predict the operating point of the network. The analysis provided by our framework leads to many interesting observations with respect to both the behavior of bottleneck links that are shared by TCP sources and the effectiveness of the design decisions in TCP-SACK and TCP-Vegas.

Keywords

telecommunication traffic; transport protocols; TCP variation analysis; TCP-Reno; TCP-SACK; TCP-Vegas modeling; Transport Control Protocol; arbitrary on-off traffic; network operating point prediction; Analytical models; Computer science; Delay; Mathematical model; Mathematics; Performance evaluation; Protocols; Queueing analysis; Telecommunication traffic; Traffic control;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Computer Telecommunications Systems, 2003. MASCOTS 2003. 11th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on

ISSN

1526-7539

Print_ISBN

0-7695-2039-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MASCOT.2003.1240671

Filename

1240671