Title
On the Burstiness of the TCP Congestion-Control Mechanism in a Distributed Computing System
Abstract
Several studies in network traffic characterization have concluded that network traffic is self-similar and therefore not readily amenable to statistical multiplexing in a distributed computing system. This paper examines the effects of the TCP protocol stack on network traffic via an experimental study on the different implementations of TCP. We show that even when aggregate application traffic smooths out as more applications' traffic are multiplexed, TCP introduces burstiness into the aggregate traffic load, reducing network performance when statistical multiplexing is used within the network gateways.
Year
DOI
Venue
2000
10.1109/ICDCS.2000.840912
ICDCS
Keywords
Field
DocType
quality of service,tcp,statistical multiplexing,tcp congestion control,network performance,multiplexing,transport protocols,distributed computing,computer networks,intelligent networks
CUBIC TCP,Computer science,Computer network,Zeta-TCP,TCP acceleration,Traffic shaping,TCP tuning,TCP global synchronization,Network traffic control,TCP Friendly Rate Control,Distributed computing
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
0-7695-0601-1
10
1.70
References 
Authors
12
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Peerapol Tinnakornsrisuphap110510.72
Wu-chun Feng2101.70
Ian Philp3314.20