Li, Yee-Ting and Leith, Douglas J. and Shorten, Robert N. (2007) Experimental evaluation of TCP protocols for high-speed networks. IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, 15 (5). pp. 1109-1122. ISSN 1063-6692

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In this paper, we present experimental results evaluating the performance of the scalable-TCP, HS-TCP, BIC-TCP, FAST-TCP, and H-TCP proposals in a series of benchmark tests. In summary, we find that both Scalable-TCP and FAST-TCP consistently exhibit substantial unfairness, even when competing flows share identical network path characteristics. Scalable-TCP, HS-TCP, FAST-TCP, and BIC-TCP all exhibit much greater RTT unfairness than does standard TCP, to the extent that long RTT flows may be completely starved of bandwidth. Scalable-TCP, HS-TCP, and BIC-TCP all exhibit slow convergence and sustained unfairness following changes in network conditions such as the start-up of a new flow. FAST-TCP exhibits complex convergence behavior.

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Keywords:	Performance evaluation; Transport protocols; Evaluation of TCP protocols; TCP congestion control; High-speed networks; BIC-TCP; FAST-TCP; H-TCP; HS-TCP; TCP protocols; Experimental evaluation; Scalable-TCP; Hamilton Institute.
Academic Unit:	Faculty of Science and Engineering > Computer Science Faculty of Science and Engineering > Research Institutes > Hamilton Institute
Item ID:	1726
Identification Number:	https://doi.org/10.1109/TNET.2007.896240
Depositing User:	Hamilton Editor
Date Deposited:	10 Dec 2009 15:12
Journal or Publication Title:	IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking
Publisher:	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Refereed:	Yes
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Use Licence:	This item is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA). Details of this licence are available here

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