Modeling the AIADD paradigm in networks with variable delays

  • Authors:
  • G. Boggia;P. Camarda;A. D'Alconzo;L. A. Grieco;S. Mascolo;E. Altman;C. Barakat

  • Affiliations:
  • DEE - Politecnico di Bari - Via Orabona, BARI, Italy;DEE - Politecnico di Bari - Via Orabona, BARI, Italy;DEE - Politecnico di Bari - Via Orabona, BARI, Italy;DEE - Politecnico di Bari - Via Orabona, BARI, Italy;DEE - Politecnico di Bari - Via Orabona, BARI, Italy;INRIA, Sophia Antipolis;INRIA, Sophia Antipolis

  • Venue:
  • CoNEXT '06 Proceedings of the 2006 ACM CoNEXT conference
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

Modeling TCP is fundamental for understanding Internet behavior. The reason is that TCP is responsible for carrying a huge quota of the Internet traffic. During last decade many analytical models have attempted to capture dynamics and steady-state behavior of standard TCP congestion control algorithms. In particular, models proposed in literature have been mainly focused on finding relationships among the throughput achieved by a TCP flow, the segment loss probability, and the round trip time (RTT) of the connection, which the flow goes through. Recently, Westwood+ TCP algorithm has been proposed to improve the performance of classic New Reno TCP, especially over paths characterized by high bandwidth-delay products. In this paper, we develop an analytic model for the throughput achieved by Westwood+ TCP congestion control algorithm when in the presence of paths with time-varying RTT. The proposed model has been validated by using the ns-2 simulator and Internet-like scenarios. Validation results have shown that this model provides relative prediction errors smaller than 10%. Moreover, it has been shown that a similar accuracy is achieved by analogous models proposed for New Reno TCP.