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Impact of Bottleneck Queue Size on TCP Protocols and Its Measurement Masaki HIRABARU Publication IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information and Systems Vol.E89-D No.1 pp.132-138 Publication Date: 2006/01/01 Online ISSN: 1745-1361 DOI: 10.1093/ietisy/e89-d.1.132 Print ISSN: 0916-8532 Type of Manuscript: Special Section PAPER (Special Section on New Technologies and their Applications of the Internet III) Category: TCP Protocol Keyword: TCP, congestion control, performance measurement, Full Text: PDF(1.3MB)>>
Summary: The queue size at a bottleneck would impact the performance of TCP protocols, especially when running a single TCP flow in networks with a large bandwidth-delay product. However, queue size has been not well considered in experiments. This paper shows how bottleneck queue size influences TCP protocols performance. Bursityness of advanced TCPs is examined. Ways of estimating queue size are introduced. Sending a UDP packet train until a loss is detected is a method to measure queuing delay to estimate queue size. Watching a loss in a TCP session to measure round trip time and calculate the queue size is also discussed. Results from experiments with a network emulator and a real network are reported. The results indicated that a layer-2 switch at a congestion point would be a major factor of decreasing TCP performance in a fast long distant path. | ||||||||||
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