An active approach to consolidating TCP and ABR flow control

Author

Williamson, B.J. ; Farrell, C.A. ; Reid, D.W.

Author_Institution

Telecommun. Res. Inst., Curtin Univ. of Technol., Perth, WA, Australia

fYear

1999

fDate

1999

Firstpage

508

Lastpage

513

Abstract

The active network paradigm no longer views data as passive but as a program, or a parameter to a program in the network elements. Active networks provide a framework for network management computations to be performed within the network elements. In this paper, we consider the available bit rate service (ABR) as an active networked service. In this study, we use the transmission control protocol (TCP) protocol data unit (PDU) to control the TCP and ABR source buffers. We demonstrate that the performance of TCP is improved by injecting, at the switch, duplicate acknowledgements which throttle TCP and yet maintain existing TCP and ABR dynamics

Keywords

buffer storage; telecommunication congestion control; telecommunication network management; telecommunication traffic; transport protocols; ABR; PDU; TCP; active network; available bit rate service; duplicate acknowledgements; flow control; network management; performance; protocol data unit; source buffer control; transmission control protocol; Australia; Bandwidth; Bit rate; Computer network management; Computer networks; Delay; Erbium; Payloads; Protocols; Switches;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computer Communications and Networks, 1999. Proceedings. Eight International Conference on

Conference_Location

Boston, MA

ISSN

1095-2055

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5794-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICCCN.1999.805566

Filename

805566