Title
Adaptive explicit congestion control based on bandwidth estimation for high bandwidth-delay product networks.
Abstract
Existing congestion control protocols for high bandwidth-delay product (HBDP) networks either suffer from efficiency degradation caused by insufficient feedback of the network state, or are difficult to deploy in real networks because they require modification in IP header to provide enough feedback information. Based on VCP, this paper proposes the VCP-BE protocol that can provide more accurate network state information by estimating available bandwidth for sender with an adaptive bandwidth estimator. The estimator can dynamically adjust its parameters (e.g., observing interval) to achieve different accuracy and responsiveness to adapt to the network state indicated by two ECN bits, without no more modification in IP header than VCP. Furthermore, when the network load is high, VCP-BE calculates the ratio of current throughput to the available bandwidth to judge if network is close to the overload state. With these fine-grained network state estimation, VCP-BE can adjust the congestion window more precisely than VCP, thus greatly improves its convergence speed of achieving high bandwidth utilization and fairness. Simulation results show that VCP-BE also outperforms MLCP, which uses seven bits for explicit feedback while VCP-BE only uses two ECN bits.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1016/j.comcom.2013.02.006
Computer Communications
Keywords
Field
DocType
TCP,Explicit congestion control,High bandwidth delay product networks,Bandwidth estimation
Convergence (routing),Computer science,Computer network,Real-time computing,Bandwidth (signal processing),Network congestion,IP header,Throughput,Network traffic control,Bandwidth management,Estimator
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
36
10
0140-3664
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
12
0.54
17
Authors
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Jianxin Wang12163283.94
Pingping Dong2234.52
Jie Chen32487353.65
Jiawei Huang421242.62
Shigeng Zhang553950.80
Hangxing Wu6383.68