Counterfeiting Congestion Control Algorithms
Margarida Ferreira, Akshay Narayan, Inês Lynce, Ruben Martins, Justine Sherry · 2021
Congestion Control Algorithms (CCAs) impact numerous desirable Internet properties such as performance, stability, and fairness. Hence, the networking community invests substantial effort into studying whether new algorithms are safe for wide-scale deployment. However, operators today are continuously innovating and some deployed CCAs are unpublished - either because the CCA is in beta or because it is considered proprietary. How can the networking community evaluate these new CCAs when their inner workings are unknown?