Experimentation of the Datagram Control Protocol
Timothy Sohn, Eiman Zolfaghari · 2002
This paper explores simulation results of the Datagram Control Protocol (DCP). The Internet community has seen the growth of real-time applications, which by the nature of their data flow do not desire the congestion control semantics of TCP and are thus left to build their applications on top of UDP. However, such methods have left with applications writers developing their own congestion control mechanisms. With congestion control mechanisms built directly into the transport layer, it provides ease of use for application writers, as well as a selection of standards for use by applications. We explore the advantages of DCP using an equation-based congestion control mechanism, TCP-friendly rate control. An initial implementation and experimentation of DCP and its equation-based congestion control mechanism shows its TCP-friendliness behaviors.