Title :
Benchmarking High Speed TCP Fairness: Why and How Starting Time Matters
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Telecommun. & Media Informatics, Budapest Univ. of Technol. & Econ., Hungary
Abstract :
Fairness of competing TCP flows is an integral and indispensable part of transport protocol design for next generation high bandwidth-delay-product networks. However, a clear definition and through analysis of fairness is still unavailable. In this paper, we argue why and show how starting time can have a significant impact on the fairness of competing high speed TCP flows. Taking starting time as a metric, promising high speed proposals such as highspeed TCP and scalable TCP are investigated in detail by extensive simulation analysis. It is shown in the paper that, under certain conditions on the starting time, scalable TCP can starve other competing flows, either they are highspeed TCP (inter-protocol) or they are scalable TCP (intra-protocol). By detail analytical and statistical analysis, explanation and computation of characteristic parameters are also provided.
Keywords :
statistical analysis; transport protocols; analytical analysis; fairness analysis; high bandwidth-delay-product networks; high speed TCP fairness; interprotocol; intraprotocol; statistical analysis; transport protocol design; Analytical models; Computational modeling; Delay; Environmental economics; High-speed networks; Informatics; Performance analysis; Proposals; Throughput; Transport protocols; HighSpeed TCP; Scalable TCP; fairness analysis;
Conference_Titel :
Communications and Electronics, 2006. ICCE '06. First International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Hanoi
Print_ISBN :
1-4244-0568-8
Electronic_ISBN :
1-4244-0569-6
DOI :
10.1109/CCE.2006.350839