Evaluation of Proactive Congestion Control on RED Gateway

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Abstract

In this paper we investigate the network performance of TCP hosts and gateways employing New Reno TCP using a parallel simulator. The gateway adopts the random early detection (RED) scheme and proactive congestion control mechanism to enforce fair sharing among competing TCP connections. The test network is modeled using PARS EC. The simulation reveals that the RED gateway drops only a small number of packets, and utilization of the bottleneck link on the RED gateway is less than 75%. The number of retransmission timeouts recorded at the TCP senders is also small. Moreover, increasing the bandwidth of the gateway input links does not substantially improve the network performance, while increasing the number of input links is very effective.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication14th International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing Systems 2001, PDCS 2001
EditorsEdwin Sha
PublisherInternational Society for Computers and Their Applications (ISCA)
Pages321-326
Number of pages6
ISBN (Electronic)9781618395740
StatePublished - 2001
Event14th International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing Systems, PDCS 2001 - Richardson, United States
Duration: 8 Aug 200110 Aug 2001

Publication series

Name14th International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing Systems 2001, PDCS 2001

Conference

Conference14th International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing Systems, PDCS 2001
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityRichardson
Period8/08/0110/08/01

Keywords

  • congestion control
  • New Reno TCP
  • parallel simulation
  • PARSEC
  • random early detection

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