Buffer sizing results for RCP congestion control under connection arrivals and departures

  • Authors:
  • Ashvin Lakshmikantha;R. Srikant;Nandita Dukkipati;Nick McKeown;Carolyn Beck

  • Affiliations:
  • ECE and CSL UIUC;ECE and CSL UIUC;Computer Systems Lab, Stanford;Computer Systems Lab, Stanford;IESE and CSL UIUC

  • Venue:
  • ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

Buffer sizing has received a lot of attention recently since it is becoming increasingly difficult to use large buffers in highspeed routers. Much of the prior work has concentrated on analyzing the amount of buffering required in core routers assuming that TCP carries all the data traffic. In this paper, we evaluate the amount of buffering required for RCP on a single congested link, while explicitly modeling flow arrivals and departures. Our theoretical analysis and simulations indicate that buffer sizes of about 10% of the bandwidth-delay product are sufficient for RCP to deliver good performance to end-users.