The performance comparison between TCP Reno and TCP Vegas

Author

Lai, Yuan-Chen ; Yao, Chan-Li

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Inf. Eng., Nat. Cheng Kung Univ., Tainan, Taiwan

fYear

2000

fDate

36800

Firstpage

61

Lastpage

66

Abstract

Following the development of TCP Vegas, the performance comparison between TCP Reno and TCP Vegas has not been discussed thoroughly. The discussion of the revised TCP version, TCP Vegas, remains insufficient to decide whether or not to use it. This paper attempts to compare the performance, throughput and fairness, of Reno and Vegas in the network environments with homogeneous and heterogeneous versions of TCP. Results in this study indicate that while TCP Vegas obtains better throughput and fairness in homogeneous cases, it fails to outperform Reno in heterogeneous cases. This phenomenon prevents users from adopting TCP Vegas despite its better performance

Keywords

performance evaluation; transport protocols; Reno; TCP Reno; TCP Vegas; Vegas; fairness; heterogeneous cases; performance; performance comparison; throughput; Bandwidth; Communication system traffic control; Data communication; Feedback; Internet; Jacobian matrices; Network topology; Propagation delay; Protocols; Throughput;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Parallel and Distributed Systems: Workshops, Seventh International Conference on, 2000

Conference_Location

Iwate

Print_ISBN

0-7695-0571-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PADSW.2000.884516

Filename

884516