VMTP: a transport protocol for the next generation of communication systems
SIGCOMM '86 Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM conference on Communications architectures & protocols
SIGCOMM '88 Symposium proceedings on Communications architectures and protocols
Congestion avoidance and control
SIGCOMM '88 Symposium proceedings on Communications architectures and protocols
NETBLT: a high throughput transport protocol
SIGCOMM '87 Proceedings of the ACM workshop on Frontiers in computer communications technology
Analysis of the increase and decrease algorithms for congestion avoidance in computer networks
Computer Networks and ISDN Systems
How slow is one gigabit per second?
ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review
Dynamical behavior of rate-based flow control mechanisms
ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review
Congestion control in IP/TCP internetworks
ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review
An analysis of network performance degradation induced by workload fluctuations
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
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Modern protocols designed for high-speed networks mostly adapt the rate at which packets are transmitted to control the flow of data between a sender and a receiver, and to control the load put upon the underlying network. In this article, the use of rate-adaption to realize 'congestion avoidance', a recently proposed highly sophisticated technique to control overload-conditions in networks is examined. With a simple analytical model of the system, expressions which help to tune it are derived. By directly comparing the resulting system to the well-known DECbit scheme which uses a window to adapt the load it is shown that most of the limitations of this scheme can be eliminated while preserving its advantages. More specific, because of the direct adaption of a rate fairness can be guaranteed in general topologies. This is possible without the need to put the burden of enforcing fairness on the (in a high-speed network already heavily loaded) routers. Finally the system can better adapt to varying packet-sizes, thus offering greater robustness and efficiency when used in real networks.