On the burstiness of the TCP congestion-control mechanism in a distributed computing system

Author

Wu-Chun Feng ; Tinnakornsrisuphap, Peerapol ; Philip, I.

Author_Institution

RADIANT, Los Alamos Nat. Lab., NM, USA

fYear

2000

fDate

2000

Firstpage

110

Lastpage

117

Abstract

Several studies in network traffic characterization have concluded that network traffic is self-similar and therefore not readily amenable to statistical multiplexing in a distributed computing system. This paper examines the effects of the TCP protocol stack on network traffic via an experimental study on the different implementations of TCP. We show that even when aggregate application traffic smooths out as more applications´ traffic are multiplexed, TCP introduces burstiness into the aggregate traffic load, reducing network performance when statistical multiplexing is used within the network gateways

Keywords

computer networks; multiplexing; telecommunication congestion control; telecommunication traffic; transport protocols; TCP congestion-control mechanism; TCP protocol stack; aggregate application traffic; burstiness; distributed computing system; network gateways; network performance; network traffic; network traffic characterization; statistical multiplexing; Aggregates; Computer networks; Distributed computing; Electrical capacitance tomography; Intelligent networks; Laboratories; Peer to peer computing; Quality of service; Telecommunication traffic; Traffic control;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Distributed Computing Systems, 2000. Proceedings. 20th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Taipei

ISSN

1063-6927

Print_ISBN

0-7695-0601-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICDCS.2000.840912

Filename

840912