An introduction to modelling and performance evaluation for TCP networks

  • Authors:
  • Michele Pagano;Raffaello Secchi

  • Affiliations:
  • Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell'Informazione, Università di Pisa, Pisa, Italy;University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, United Kingdom

  • Venue:
  • Network performance engineering
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

The widespread diffusion of TCP over the Internet has motivated a significant number of analytical studies in TCP modelling, the most important of which are presented in this tutorial. The simplest approaches describe the dynamics of an individual source over a simplified network model (e.g. expressing the network behaviour in terms of average loss rate and latency). These models allow us to derive accurate estimations for the long-term TCP throughput under different network settings. More detailed techniques model the behaviour of a set of TCP connections over an arbitrary complex network. The latter are able to capture the network dynamics and effectively predict the closed-loop interaction between TCP and traffic management techniques. As an example the derivation of sufficient stability conditions for a network of RED queues is provided.