Title :
Buffer sizing for nonhomogeneous TCP sources
Author :
Andrew, Lachlan L H ; Cui, Tony ; Sun, Jinsheng ; Zukerman, Moshe ; Ko, King-Tim ; Chan, Sammy
Author_Institution :
Dept. of EEE, Melbourne Univ., Vic., Australia
fDate :
6/1/2005 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
Considering a single bottleneck model of TCP with a constant number of greedy and nonhomogeneous sources and assuming that TCP timeouts do not occur, we establish necessary and sufficient conditions, related to the bandwidth delay product, to guarantee that the buffer will never empty. We also demonstrate by simulation that weaker conditions could be adequate to maintain high utilization in practice and discuss delay and packet drop rate implications.
Keywords :
Internet; buffer storage; telecommunication congestion control; telecommunication traffic; transport protocols; Internet routers; TCP protocol; buffer dimensioning; congestion control; delay drop rate; nonhomogeneous sources; packet drop rate; Australia; Bandwidth; Councils; Delay; Network topology; Propagation losses; Protocols; Sufficient conditions; Sun; Traffic control;
Journal_Title :
Communications Letters, IEEE
DOI :
10.1109/LCOMM.2005.1437373
