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Time-domain sending rate and response function of eXplicit Control Protocol

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A response function is usually used to describe the scalability of a protocol for high-speed network. This requires detailed knowledge of the time-domain sending rate. However, studies about the performance of eXplicit Control Protocol (XCP) mainly focus on the steady-state behavior and few address this problem. Under a model with single bottleneck, the time-domain sending rate of XCP is derived in this paper. Simulation results show that this analytic time-domain sending rate is accurate. Combined with a periodic loss model, the response function of XCP is further derived. Unlike response functions of other protocols, the response function of XCP is related to not only the loss event rate, but also the per-flow bandwidth. Simulation results show that it forms an upper bound for the throughput of XCP with given loss event rate and per-flow bandwidth.

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  1. School of Electronics and Information, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Huashan Street, 1954#, Shanghai, 200030, P.R. China

    Shuangmei Cheng & Jianhua Li

  2. Institute of Communications Engineering, PLA University of Science and Technology, Biaoying 2#, Yudao Street, Nanjing, 210007, P.R. China

    Shuangmei Cheng, Lei Zhu & Chuanxiong Guo

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This research is funded by NSFC of China under grant number of 60503049/60772098/60702043, NCET of Ministry of Education of China under grant number of NCET-06-0393, National 863 Hi-Tech Research and development plan of China under grant number of 2007AA01Z455, and Shanghai dawn scholar Foundation in China. This work was performed when Chuanxiong Guo as associated with the Nanjing Institute of Communications Engineering. This work was first published in the ICCCN-PMECT’08.

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Cheng, S., Li, J., Zhu, L. et al. Time-domain sending rate and response function of eXplicit Control Protocol. Telecommun Syst 45, 323–328 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11235-009-9270-x

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