Andrew, Lachlan L. H. and Atov, Irena and Kennedy, David N. and Wydrowski, Bartek (2005) Evaluation of FAST TCP in Low-Speed DOCSIS-based Access Networks. In: TENCON 2005 - 2005 IEEE Region 10 Conference. IEEE , Piscataway, NJ. ISBN 0-7803-9311-2. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20170517-160841934
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Abstract
There is strong evidence that the efficiency of the Internet is limited by its existing TCP congestion control system. A replacement, FAST, has been shown to improve performance in high-speed networks. In order to achieve widespread acceptance and standardisation, it must also be tested in environments more typical of the existing Internet. This paper experimentally evaluates the performance of FAST over a typical access link, with bandwidths of around 0.5-3 Mbps. Links both using the DOCSIS cable modem medium access control (MAC) protocol and simple low rate links were investigated. It is shown that the random delay introduced by MAC protocol of the cable modem does not appear to interfere significantly with FAST's ability to set the congestion window size to its target. However, the cable modem does appear to introduce consistent additional delays when the link is highly, but not fully, utilised. These unexplained delays mean that a larger congestion window is required, and must be taken into account when setting FAST's parameters, notably the target queue size, alpha.
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Additional Information: | © 2005 IEEE. We thank Cisco Systems Australia for donating equipment, and L. Stewart of CAIA for assistance setting up the network. CUBIN is an affiliated programme of National ICT Australia. This work was supported by the Australian Research Council. | |||||||||
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DOI: | 10.1109/TENCON.2005.300974 | |||||||||
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Official Citation: | L. L. H. Andrew, I. Atov, D. Kennedy and B. Wydrowski, "Evaluation of FAST TCP in Low-Speed DOCSIS-based Access Networks," TENCON 2005 - 2005 IEEE Region 10 Conference, Melbourne, Qld., 2005, pp. 1-6. doi: 10.1109/TENCON.2005.300974 | |||||||||
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Deposited By: | Kristin Buxton | |||||||||
Deposited On: | 17 May 2017 23:34 | |||||||||
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