How many parallel TCP sessions to open: a pricing perspective

  • Authors:
  • Bruno Tuffin;Patrick Maillé

  • Affiliations:
  • IRISA-INRIA, Rennes Cedex, France;GET/ENST Bretagne, Cesson Sévigné, France

  • Venue:
  • ICQT'06 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Internet Charging and QoS Technologies: performability has its Price
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

TCP is one of the main transmission protocols used in the Internet. It has also been recently observed that opening parallel TCP sessions might be of interest for a user in order to increase his overall average throughput. We suggest in this paper to charge users per TCP session, and we investigate the resulting game in a homogeneous context: how many sessions should each user open? Given the discrete (and even finite) space of strategies, we propose to implement a probabilistic adaptation algorithm, analyze its theoretical properties and provide numerical illustrations.