Title
Momentary Recovery Algorithm: A New Look At The Traditional Problem Of Tcp
Abstract
Traditional TCP has a good congestion control strategy that adapts its sending rate in accordance with network congestion. In addition, a fast recovery algorithm can help TCP achieve better throughput by responding to temporary network congestion well. However, if multiple packet losses occur, the time to enter congestion avoidance phase would be delayed due to the long recovery time. Moreover, during the recovery phase, TCP freezes congestion window size until all lost packets are recovered, and this can make recovery time much longer resulting in performance degradation. To mitigate such recovery overhead, we propose Momentary recovery algorithm that recovers packet loss without ail extra recovery phase. As other TCP and variants, our algorithm also halves the congestion window size when packet drop is detected, but it performs congestion avoidance phase immediately as if loss recovery is completed. For lost packets, TCP sender transmits them along with normal packets as long as congestion window permits rather than performs fast retransmission. In this manner, we can eliminate recovery overhead efficiently and reach steady state momentarily after network congestion. Finally, we provide a simulation based study on TCP recovery behaviors and confirm that our Momentary recover v algorithm always shows better performance compared with NewReno, SACK, and FACK.
Year
DOI
Venue
2009
10.1587/transcom.E92.B.3765
IEICE TRANSACTIONS ON COMMUNICATIONS
Keywords
Field
DocType
transmission control protocol, loss recovery algorithm, congestion control, recovery overhead
H-TCP,TCP Westwood plus,Computer science,Computer network,Algorithm,Network congestion,TCP acceleration,TCP tuning,TCP global synchronization,TCP Friendly Rate Control,HSTCP
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
E92B
12
0916-8516
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
1
0.39
12
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Jaehyun Hwang112110.72
See-hwan Yoo28610.96
Chuck Yoo39820.58