Title
Understanding the behavior of TCP for real-time CBR workloads
Abstract
In this paper, we examine the feasibility of sending real-time CBR workloads over TCP. This is motivated by the friendliness of NATs and firewalls towards TCP as opposed to UDP as well as by recent improvements in Internet's bandwidth and loss rates. Traditionally, TCP has been considered undesirable for real-time CBR workloads. We evaluate this assertion by developing a novel analytical tool that yields TCP's sender-to-receiver socket delay distribution for CBR workloads. A key insight gained is that the use of smaller than MSS-sized packets in CBR workloads can exploit the TCP's ACK counting mechanism thereby limiting the delay impact of congestion window variations. We leverage this insight to provide a heuristic and system-level guidelines for reducing TCP transport delays.
Year
DOI
Venue
2006
10.1145/1368436.1368502
CoNEXT
Keywords
Field
DocType
real-time cbr workloads,key insight,cbr workloads,loss rate,novel analytical tool,tcp transport delay,mss-sized packet,sender-to-receiver socket delay distribution,delay impact,congestion window variation,routing,extensibility,control,modularity,bgp,real time
H-TCP,TCP delayed acknowledgment,Computer science,Computer network,TCP acceleration,Zeta-TCP,TCP tuning,TCP Friendly Rate Control,TCP global synchronization,HSTCP,Distributed computing
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
1-59593-456-1
4
0.45
References 
Authors
4
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Salman A. Baset1864.38
Eli Brosh2925.95
Vishal Misra33330241.54
Dan Rubenstein41548114.74
Henning Schulzrinne57003859.77