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Effect of multiplexing TCP flows on delay sensitivity in the internet communications

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TCP is the dominant protocol in the Internet and delay friendliness of TCP is a well studied, complex and a practical issue. While all other components of end-to-end delay have been adequately characterized, the issue regarding queuing delay and the number of re-transmissions which are random in nature, add to uncertainty in the Internet. The datagrams at the router are from number of multiplexed flows’ M(n) which constitute a stochastic process. This paper examines queuing behavior subject to multiplexing a stochastic process M (n) of flows’. The arrival and service processes at the bottleneck router have been mathematically modeled accounting for different proportions of TCP and UDP with their datagram sizes as parameters. This model is then used to evaluate the mean queuing delay for datagrams for different fractions of TCP in the background traffic. Further using discrete queue analysis of datagrams, estimation of average instantaneous delay for datagrams of a tagged flow has been derived to ascertain the delay impact of multiplexing of flows’ on datagrams of a tagged flow by fellow flows’. The analysis divulges an intriguing behavior that flows’ multiplexing ‘harms’ the queuing delay. It has been observed that mean queuing delay for datagrams and average instantaneous delay for datagrams of a typical flow get degraded with the increased number of fellow TCP flows’ in the background traffic.

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  1. Cummins College of Engineering for Women, Pune, Maharahtra, India

    Sneha K. Thombre

  2. National Institute of Advanced Studies, Indian Institute of Sciences Campus, Bangalore, Karnataka, India

    Lalit M. Patnaik

  3. Vishwakarma Institute of Information Technology, Pune, Maharashtra, India

    Anil S. Tavildar

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Thombre, S.K., Patnaik, L.M. & Tavildar, A.S. Effect of multiplexing TCP flows on delay sensitivity in the internet communications. CCF Trans. Netw. 1, 37–51 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s42045-019-00015-9

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