Improvement of RTT-fairness in Hybrid TCP congestion control

This paper presents TCP-fusion supporting RTT (round trip time) fairness in addition to throughput efficiency and friendliness to TCP-Reno. When multiple TCP flows having different RTT values compete, more bandwidth is unfairly allocated to the flow having smaller RTT. This means that a user with longer RTT may not be able to obtain sufficient bandwidth by the current methods. On the other hand, recent studies on the TCP congestion control to achieve RTT fairness and throughput efficiency are evolving actively. An example for RTT fairness is TCP-Libra and an example for throughput efficiency is hybrid TCP congestion control. This paper focuses on hybrid TCP (exploiting residual link capacity when TCP-Reno drops its rate) and improves its RTT fairness by incorporating the ideas of TCP-Libra (congestion window increase in proportion to square of RTT) to its loss mode. Experiments are carried out to validate the proposed method and much better performances in RTT fairness and throughput are provided against conventional methods.