Analysis of TCP transient behavior and its effect on file transfer latency

Author

Ehsan, Navid ; Liu, Mingyan

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng. & Comput. Sci., Michigan Univ., Ann Arbor, MI, USA

Volume

3

fYear

2003

fDate

11-15 May 2003

Firstpage

1806

Abstract

In this paper we present a Markov chain for TCP congestion avoidance phase. With this model we are able to analyze congestion window behavior as a discrete-time stochastic process and distinguish between window transient period and steady state. Using this result we are able to obtain more accurate estimate of TCP latency over lossy links compared to existing models. We then simplify the proposed model and show that the transient period evolves with an exponential rate. Our results are validated using NS2 simulation and show significant improvement in latency estimate for a wide range of file sizes.

Keywords

Internet; Markov processes; eigenvalues and eigenfunctions; file organisation; telecommunication traffic; transient analysis; transport protocols; Markov chain; NS2 simulation; TCP; congestion avoidance phase; discrete-time stochastic process; file transfer latency; lossy links; steady state; transient behavior; Analytical models; Delay; Internet; State estimation; Steady-state; Stochastic processes; Throughput; Traffic control; Transient analysis; Transport protocols;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Communications, 2003. ICC '03. IEEE International Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7802-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICC.2003.1203911

Filename

1203911