TCP and explicit congestion notification
ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review
High performance TCP in ANSNET
ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review
On the constancy of internet path properties
IMW '01 Proceedings of the 1st ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Internet Measurement
A mean-field model for multiple TCP connections through a buffer implementing RED
Performance Evaluation
Linear stability of TCP/RED and a scalable control
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS OF THE RANDOM EARLY DETECTION ALGORITHM
Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences
Rate-based versus queue-based models of congestion control
Proceedings of the joint international conference on Measurement and modeling of computer systems
Characterization of queue fluctuations in probabilistic AQM mechanisms
Proceedings of the joint international conference on Measurement and modeling of computer systems
Proceedings of the 2004 conference on Applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computer communications
Why is the internet traffic bursty in short time scales?
SIGMETRICS '05 Proceedings of the 2005 ACM SIGMETRICS international conference on Measurement and modeling of computer systems
Part I: buffer sizes for core routers
ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review
Part II: control theory for buffer sizing
ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review
Mean FDE models for Internet congestion control under a many-flows regime
IEEE Transactions on Information Theory
Perspectives on router buffer sizing: recent results and open problems
ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review
Buffer sizing for 802.11-based networks
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
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We consider a TCP/AQM system with large link capacity (NC) shared by many flows. The traditional rule-of-thumb suggests that the buffer size be chosen in proportion to the number of flows (N) for full link utilization, while recent research outcomes show that O(√N) buffer sizing is sufficient for high utilization and O(1) buffer sizing makes the system stable at the cost of reduced link utilization. In this paper, we consider a system where the Active Queue Management (AQM) is scaled as O(Nα) with a buffer of size O(Nβ) (0 N increases. Our results assert that the system enjoys benefit of largeness with no tradeoff between full link utilization, zero packet loss, and small buffer size, at least asymptotically. This is in stark contrast to existing results showing that there always exists a tradeoff between full link utilization and the required buffer size. Extensive ns-2 simulation results under various configurations also confirm our theoretical findings. Our study illustrates that blind application of fluid modeling may result in strange results and exemplifies the importance of choosing a right modeling approach for different scaling regimes.