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On Tuning TCP for Superior Performance on High Speed Path Scenarios

Authors:
Dirceu Cavendish
Kazumi Kumazoe
Hirofumi Ishizaki
Takeshi Ikenaga
Masato Tsuru
Yuji Oie

Keywords: High speed networks; TCP congestion avoidance; Packet retransmissions; Path capacity and buffering;

Abstract:
Transmission control protocol performance varies considerably, depending on network and path conditions. In this paper, we discuss path conditions that affect TCP performance, from round trip delays to path capacity and buffering. We characterize throughput performance of popular TCP congestion avoidance mechanism as well as recently proposed TCP variants via open source based network experiments. We show that superior TCP performance may be achieved via careful selection of congestion avoidance mechanism, as well as parameter tuning.

Pages: 11 to 16

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2012

Publication date: June 24, 2012

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-443X

ISBN: 978-1-61208-204-2

Location: Venice, Italy

Dates: from June 24, 2012 to June 29, 2012