Title :
Improving the fairness of FAST TCP to new flows
Author :
Cui, Tony ; Andrew, Lachlan L H ; Zukerman, Moshe ; Tan, Liansheng
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., Melbourne Univ., Vic., Australia
fDate :
5/1/2006 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
It has been observed that FAST TCP, and the related protocol TCP Vegas, suffer unfairness when many flows arrive at a single bottleneck link, without intervening departures. We show that the effect is even more marked if a new flow arrives when existing flows share bandwidth fairly, and propose a simple method to ameliorate this effect.
Keywords :
bandwidth allocation; queueing theory; transport protocols; FAST TCP fairness improvement; TCP Vegas; bandwidth sharing; transmission control protocol; Australia Council; Bandwidth; Computer science; Delay effects; Delay estimation; Electronic mail; Propagation delay; Protocols; Throughput; Time measurement;
Journal_Title :
Communications Letters, IEEE
DOI :
10.1109/LCOMM.2006.1633341
