Random early detection gateways for congestion avoidance
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
High performance TCP in ANSNET
ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review
Fluid-based analysis of a network of AQM routers supporting TCP flows with an application to RED
Proceedings of the conference on Applications, Technologies, Architectures, and Protocols for Computer Communication
Proceedings of the 2004 conference on Applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computer communications
Update on buffer sizing in internet routers
ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review
CUBIC: a new TCP-friendly high-speed TCP variant
ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review - Research and developments in the Linux kernel
Perspectives on router buffer sizing: recent results and open problems
ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review
An argument for increasing TCP's initial congestion window
ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review
Bufferbloat: Dark Buffers in the Internet
IEEE Internet Computing
NETWORKING'10 Proceedings of the 9th IFIP TC 6 international conference on Networking
TCP Vegas: end to end congestion avoidance on a global Internet
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
FAST TCP: from theory to experiments
IEEE Network: The Magazine of Global Internetworking
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
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Reducing the size of packet buffers in network equipment is a straightforward method for improving the network performance experienced by user applications and also the energy efficiency of system designs. Smaller buffers imply lower queueing delays, with faster delivery of data to receivers and shorter round-trip times for better controlling the size of TCP congestion windows. If small enough, downsized buffers can even fit in the same chips where packets are processed and scheduled, avoiding the energy cost of external memory chips and of the interfaces that drive them. On-chip buffer memories also abate packet access latencies, further contributing to system scalability and bandwidth density. Unfortunately, despite more than two decades of intense research activity on buffer management, current-day system designs still rely on the conventional bandwidth-delay product rule to set the size of their buffers. Instead of decreasing, buffer sizes keep on growing linearly with link capacities. We draw from the limitations of the buffer management schemes that are commonly available in commercial network equipment to define Periodic Early Detection (PED), a new active queue management scheme that achieves important buffer size reductions (more than 95%) while retaining TCP throughput and fairness. We show that PED enables on-chip buffer implementations for link rates up to 100Gbps while relieving end users from network performance disruptions of common occurrence.