Design and performance evaluation of a rate feedback control architecture for TCP/IP networks

Author

Mustafa, A.A. ; Hassan, Mahbub ; Jha, Sanjay

Author_Institution

Sch. of Comput. Sci. & Eng., Univ. of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia

fYear

2002

fDate

2002

Firstpage

251

Lastpage

258

Abstract

We present the design of a rate feedback architecture for TCP/IP networks. The architecture allows the traffic sources to receive periodic feedback of available rates from the network using ICMP. The sources shape their traffic according to the feedback rate. The performance of the proposed architecture is evaluated using computer simulations. Our results demonstrate that the proposed rate feedback architecture can significantly improve TCP throughput and fairness when buffering capacity in the network is extremely limited. The architecture also improves packet loss rate, delay and delay jitter in the network

Keywords

Internet; feedback; performance evaluation; telecommunication control; telecommunication traffic; transport protocols; ICMP; Internet; TCP/IP networks; delay jitter; fairness; packet loss rate; performance evaluation; rate feedback control architecture; throughput; traffic shaping; Communication system traffic control; Computer architecture; Computer simulation; Feedback control; IP networks; Jitter; Shape; TCPIP; Throughput; Traffic control;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Performance, Computing, and Communications Conference, 2002. 21st IEEE International

Conference_Location

Phoenix, AZ

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7371-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IPCCC.2002.995158

Filename

995158