A novel fair bandwidth allocation algorithm for TCP window control

Author

Peng, Fei ; Leung, Victor C M

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., British Columbia Univ., Canada

fYear

2003

fDate

9-11 April 2003

Firstpage

317

Lastpage

324

Abstract

Without appropriately fair buffer management in the network, TCP encounters inherent unfairness towards connections with long round-trip times. The paper proposes a proportional fairness algorithm to correct the bias against these long connections. The algorithm is proven to converge to the fair point using the Lyapunov function. The basic algorithm is further modified to smooth the bursts of traffic. With these modifications, simulation results show that not only can our algorithm. improve TCP fairness, but it can obtain good throughput performance as well.

Keywords

Internet; Lyapunov methods; bandwidth allocation; buffer storage; telecommunication congestion control; telecommunication traffic; transport protocols; Internet; Lyapunov function; TCP window control; congestion avoidance; fair bandwidth allocation; proportional fairness algorithm; throughput; traffic smoothing; Bandwidth; Channel allocation; Computer network management; Delay; Electronic mail; Engineering management; Lyapunov method; Proposals; Throughput; Transport protocols;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Performance, Computing, and Communications Conference, 2003. Conference Proceedings of the 2003 IEEE International

ISSN

1097-2641

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7893-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PCCC.2003.1203714

Filename

1203714