Title :
A note on the fairness of TCP Vegas
Author :
Boutremans, Catherine ; Boudec, Jean-Yves Le
Author_Institution :
Inst. for Comput. Commun. & Applications, Swiss Federal Inst. of Technol., Lausanne, Switzerland
fDate :
6/22/1905 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
This paper shows that TCP Vegas´ fairness critically requires an accurate estimation of propagation delay. We also show that, in practice, this may be difficult to achieve and we discuss how to choose the parameters α and β that control the window sizes´ update
Keywords :
delay estimation; telecommunication congestion control; transport protocols; TCP Vegas; congestion control; fairness; propagation delay estimation; update control; window size; Application software; Bandwidth; Computer applications; Delay estimation; Independent component analysis; Loss measurement; Propagation delay; Size control; Throughput; Time measurement;
Conference_Titel :
Broadband Communications, 2000. Proceedings. 2000 International Zurich Seminar on
Conference_Location :
Zurich
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-5977-1
DOI :
10.1109/IZSBC.2000.829247
