Paper Info
Title
When TCP Friendliness Becomes Harmful
Abstract
Short TCP flows may suffer significant response- time performance degradations during network congestion. Un- fortunately, this creates an incentive for misbehavior by clients of interactive applications (e.g., gaming, telnet, web): to send "dummy" packets into the network at a TCP-fair rate even when they have no data to send, thus improving their performance in moments when they do have data to send. Even though no "law" is violated in this way, a large-scale deployment of such an approach has the potential to seriously jeopardize one of the core Internet's principles — statistical multiplexing. We quantify, by means of analytical modeling and simulation, gains achievable by the above misbehavior. Further, we explore techniques that both misbehaving and regular clients can apply to optimize their performance. Our research indicates that easy-to-implement application-level techniques are capable of dramatically reducing incentives for conducting the above transgressions, still without compromising the idea of statistical multiplexing.
Year
DOI
Venue
2007
10.1109/INFCOM.2007.26
Anchorage, AK
Keywords
Field
DocType
Internet,statistical multiplexing,telecommunication congestion control,transport protocols,Internet,TCP flows,TCP friendliness,network congestion,statistical multiplexing
Computer security,Computer science,Computer network,Transmission Control Protocol,Network congestion,TCP acceleration,TCP tuning,TCP hole punching,Statistical time division multiplexing,TCP Friendly Rate Control,TCP global synchronization
Conference
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
0743-166X
1-4244-1047-9
3
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.42
22
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Amit Mondal1354.40
Aleksandar Kuzmanovic296071.99