Paper Info
Title
The effects of systemic packet loss on aggregate TCP flows
Abstract
The use of parallel TCP connections to increase throughput for bulk transfers is common practice within the high performance computing community. However, the effectiveness, fairness, and efficiency of data transfers across parallel connections is unclear. This paper considers the impact of systemic non-congestion related packet loss on the effectiveness, fairness, and efficiency of parallel TCP transmissions. The results indicate that parallel connections are effective at increasing aggregate throughput, and increase the overall efficiency of the network bottleneck. In the presence of congestion related losses, parallel flows steal bandwidth from other single stream flows. A simple modification is presented that reduces the fairness problems when congestion is present, but retains effectiveness and efficiency.
Year
DOI
Venue
2002
10.1109/SC.2002.10029
SC
Keywords
Field
DocType
parallel connection,aggregate throughput,overall efficiency,aggregate tcp flow,parallel flow,parallel tcp connection,parallel tcp transmission,common practice,systemic non-congestion related packet,systemic packet loss,fairness problem,bulk transfer,data transfer,stream flow,perception,bandwidth,throughput,visual cues,high performance computing,field lines,particle accelerators,robustness,volume rendering,concurrent computing,internet,scientific visualization,packet loss,texture mapping
Bottleneck,Computer science,Parallel computing,Packet loss,Computer network,Fairness measure,TCP acceleration,Throughput,TCP tuning,TCP Friendly Rate Control,TCP global synchronization,Distributed computing
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-0-7695-1524-3
24
1.18
References 
Authors
15
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Thomas J. Hacker133832.29
Brian Noble22954385.01
Brian D. Athey330622.13