Fairness and stability analysis of high speed transport protocols
Balázs Sonkoly · 2010
TCP congestion control had managed successfully the stability of the Internet in the past decades but it has reached its limitations in challenging network environments. The new challenges of next-generation networks (e.g., high speed communication or the communication over different media) generated an urgent need to further develop the congestion control of the current Internet. In recent years, several new proposals and modifications of the standard congestion control me hanism have been developed by different research groups all over the world. These new me hanisms and TCP versions address dierent aspe ts of future networks and appli ations and improve the performan e of regular TCP. One of the important network environments where the serious drawba ks of standard TCP Reno an be experien ed is high speed wide are networks. These networks an be hara terized by high bandwidth-delay produ t (BDP) and TCP annot e iently utilize them due to its onservative ongestion ontrol s heme. As a response to this problem, the resear h ommunity has proposed several new transport proto ols re ently referred as high speed TCPs. On the one hand, this dissertation provides a comprehensive fairness analysis of promising TCP proposals and congestion control mechanisms designed for high bandwidth-delay product