Abstract
The past few years have witnessed debate on how to improve link utilization of high-speed tiny-size buffer routers. Widely argued proposals for TCP traffic to realize acceptable link capacities mandate: (i) over-provisioned core link bandwidth; and (ii) non-bursty flows; and (iii) tens of thousands of asynchronous flows. However, in high-speed access networks where flows are bursty, sparse and synchronous, TCP traffic suffer severely from routers with tiny buffers. We propose a new congestion control algorithm called Desyn-chronized Multi-Channel TCP (DMCTCP) that creates a flow with multiple channels. It avoids TCP loss synchronization by desynchronizing channels, and it avoids sending rate penalties from burst losses. Over a 10 Gb/s large delay network ruled by routers with only a few dozen packets of buffers, our results show that bottleneck link utilization can reach 80% with only 100 flows. Our study is a new step towards the deployment of optical packet switching networks.
Recommended Citation
C. Cui et al., "DMCTCP: Desynchronized Multi-Channel TCP For High Speed Access Networks With Tiny Buffers," Proceedings - International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks, ICCCN, article no. 6911722, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Sep 2014.
The definitive version is available at https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCCN.2014.6911722
Department(s)
Computer Science
Keywords and Phrases
High Speed Access Networks; TCP Congestion Control; Tiny Buffer
International Standard Book Number (ISBN)
978-147993572-7
International Standard Serial Number (ISSN)
1095-2055
Document Type
Article - Conference proceedings
Document Version
Citation
File Type
text
Language(s)
English
Rights
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Publication Date
25 Sep 2014
