The case for delay-based congestion control
- Resource Type
- Conference
- Authors
- Cheng Jin; Wei, D.X.; Low, S.H.
- Source
- 2002 14th International Conference on Ion Implantation Technology Proceedings (IEEE Cat. No.02EX505) Computer communications Computer Communications, 2003. CCW 2003. Proceedings. 2003 IEEE 18th Annual Workshop on. :99-104 2003
- Subject
- Computing and Processing
Communication, Networking and Broadcast Technologies
Components, Circuits, Devices and Systems
Photonics and Electrooptics
Signal Processing and Analysis
Computer aided software engineering
Delay
Stability
Internet
Distributed control
Distributed algorithms
Availability
Supply and demand
Feedback control
Communication system traffic control
- Language
We argue that, in the absence of explicit feedback, delay-based algorithms become the preferred approach for end-to-end congestion control as networks scale up in capacity. Their advantage is small at low speed but decisive at high speed. The distinction between packet-level and flow-level problems of the current TCP exposes the difficulty of loss-based algorithms at large congestion windows.