On the optimization of the inter - flow fairness in the Internet
Błażej Adamczyk, Andrzej Chydziński · Theoretical and Applied Informatics · 2012
All known active queue management algorithms invented to provide fair bandwidth allocation between TCP flows are designed to cooperate with the classic TCP congestion control (New Reno). However, some new congestion control schemes are becoming more and more popular nowadays (e.g. the Cubic algorithm). Therefore, the following question arises: will these fair queue management algorithms work well in the presence of a new congestion control scheme? To answer this questions, we present a comprehensive study of the performance of seven fair queue management algorithms in the presence of seven TCP variants. In particular, the fairness index, queue size and throughput were measured in scenarios with diversified RTTs, traffic patterns and congestion levels. Not only do the results allow us to answer the aforementioned question, but also to formulate recommendation on how to provide the best cross-layer fairness optimization in the Internet.