Title
Equilibrium and Fairness of Networks Shared by TCP Reno and Vegas/FAST
Abstract
It has been proved theoretically that a network with heterogeneous congestion control algorithms that react to different congestion signals can have multiple equilibrium points. In this paper, we demonstrate this experimentally using TCP Reno and Vegas/FAST. We also show that any desired inter-protocol fairness is in principle achievable by an appropriate choice of Vegas/FAST parameter, and that intra-protocol fairness among flows within each protocol is unaffected by the presence of the other protocol except for a reduction in effective link capacities. Dummynet experiments and ns-2 simulations are presented to verify these results.
Year
DOI
Venue
2005
10.1007/s11235-005-5499-1
Telecommunications Systems
Keywords
Field
DocType
Information System,Artificial Intelligence,Communication Network,Stochastic Process,Probability Theory
H-TCP,Telecommunications network,TCP Westwood plus,TCP Vegas,Computer science,Computer network,Equilibrium point,Stochastic process,Zeta-TCP,Fairness measure
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
30
4
1018-4864
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
20
1.56
19
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Ao Tang125418.74
Jiantao Wang231523.82
Sanjay Hegde3201.56
S. H. Low45999585.58