| Techreport |
| Type of Publication |
| Equation-Based Congestion Control for Unicast
Applications: the Extended Version |
| Title |
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Sally Floyd
Mark Handley
Jitendra Padhye
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| Authors |
| Technical Report TR-00-003, International Computer Science Institute
(ICSI), March 2000 |
| Published in |
| This paper proposes a mechanism for
equation-based congestion control for unicast traffic. Most
best-effort traffic in the current Internet is well-served by the
dominant transport protocol TCP. However, traffic such as
best-effort unicast streaming multimedia could find use for a
TCP-friendly congestion control mechanism that refrains from
reducing the sending rate in half in response to a single packet
drop. With our mechanism, the sender explicitly adjusts its
sending rate as a function of the measured rate of loss events,
where a loss event consists of one or more packets dropped within
a single round-trip time. We use both simulations and experiments
over the Internet to explore performance. Equation-based
congestion control is also a promising avenue of development for
congestion control of multicast traffic, and so an additional
reason for this work is to lay a sound basis for the later
development of multicast congestion control. |
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