Improvement of fairness between assured service TCP users in a differentiated service network

Author

Lee, Ji Hyeong ; Jeong, Choong Kyo

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. Eng., Kangwon Nat. Univ., Chunchon, South Korea

fYear

2001

fDate

2001

Firstpage

47

Lastpage

55

Abstract

To support quality of service (QoS) in the existing Internet, differentiated service (DiffServ) has been proposed. However, the unfairness between TCP connections remains as a serious problem, not only in the conventional best-effort service Internet, but also in the new DiffServ network. In this paper, we propose the balancing marker algorithm (BMA) to improve the fairness between individual connections of aggregated sources in a DiffServ network. This algorithm is based on the 3-level priority marking method. We compare the 2-level packet priority marker with the balancing marker proposed in this paper. We show that the BMA improved the fairness and the throughputs between the individual connections with different delays in an aggregated source

Keywords

Internet; delays; quality of service; transport protocols; 2-level packet priority marker; 3-level priority marking method; DiffServ network; QoS; TCP connections; aggregated source; assured service TCP users; balancing marker algorithm; best-effort service Internet; differentiated service network; fairness improvement; quality of service; throughputs; Bandwidth; Delay; Diffserv networks; IP networks; Intelligent networks; Quality of service; Scalability; Spine; Throughput; Web and internet services;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

ATM (ICATM 2001) and High Speed Intelligent Internet Symposium, 2001. Joint 4th IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Seoul

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7093-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICATM.2001.932055

Filename

932055