USING ECN MARKS TO IMPROVE TCP PERFORMANCE OVER LOSSY LINKS

Haowei Bai, Mohammed Atiquzzaman, David Lilja

2004

Abstract

TCP was designed for wireline networks, where loss events are mostly caused by network congestion. The congestion control mechanism of current TCP uses loss events as the indicator of congestion, and reduces its congestion window size. However, when a lossy link is involved in a TCP connection, non-congestion random losses should also be considered. The congestion window size should not be decreased if a loss event is caused by link corruptions. To improve TCP performance over lossy links, in this paper, we first present that zero congestion loss could be achieved by appropriately setting the ECN marking threshold in the RED buffer. Secondly, we propose a new TCP algorithm, called Differentiation Capable TCP (Diff-C-TCP). Diff-C-TCP makes an assumption that packet losses are caused by link corruptions, and uses ECN (Explicit Congestion Notification) to determine any loss that may occasionally happen due to network congestion. We have shown that Diff-C-TCP performs very well in the presence of a lossy link.

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Bai H., Atiquzzaman M. and Lilja D. (2004). USING ECN MARKS TO IMPROVE TCP PERFORMANCE OVER LOSSY LINKS . In Proceedings of the First International Conference on E-Business and Telecommunication Networks - Volume 1: TCPMAC, (ICETE 2004) ISBN 972-8865-15-5, pages 437-445. DOI: 10.5220/0001405604370445


in Bibtex Style

@conference{tcpmac04,
author={Haowei Bai and Mohammed Atiquzzaman and David Lilja},
title={USING ECN MARKS TO IMPROVE TCP PERFORMANCE OVER LOSSY LINKS},
booktitle={Proceedings of the First International Conference on E-Business and Telecommunication Networks - Volume 1: TCPMAC, (ICETE 2004)},
year={2004},
pages={437-445},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0001405604370445},
isbn={972-8865-15-5},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the First International Conference on E-Business and Telecommunication Networks - Volume 1: TCPMAC, (ICETE 2004)
TI - USING ECN MARKS TO IMPROVE TCP PERFORMANCE OVER LOSSY LINKS
SN - 972-8865-15-5
AU - Bai H.
AU - Atiquzzaman M.
AU - Lilja D.
PY - 2004
SP - 437
EP - 445
DO - 10.5220/0001405604370445