The interaction between window adjustment strategies and queue management schemes

  • Authors:
  • Chi Zhang;Lefteris Mamatas

  • Affiliations:
  • School of Computer Science, Florida International University, Miami, FL;Department Of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Demokritos University, Xanthi, Greece

  • Venue:
  • WWIC'05 Proceedings of the Third international conference on Wired/Wireless Internet Communications
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

In this paper, we investigate extensively the joint network dynamics with different AIMD window-adjustment parameters on end-hosts, and different queue management schemes (i.e. DropTail vs. RED) in routers. We reveal that with DropTail buffer, although smooth TCPs causes less queuing-delay jitter, its average queuing delay is significantly higher than that of responsive TCPs. The direct implication of this discovery is that when mobile users of media-streaming and short messages share a bottleneck link, the energy consumption for sending short messages can increase severely if media-streaming users adopt smooth TCPs. With RED, on the other hand, smooth TCPs not only lead to smaller queue oscillation, the average/max queue length is smaller as well.