On the interaction between TCP-like sources and throughput-efficient scheduling policies

  • Authors:
  • Paolo Giaccone;Emilio Leonardi;Fabio Neri

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-

  • Venue:
  • Performance Evaluation
  • Year:
  • 2013

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Abstract

We focus on the dynamic interaction in packet networks between regulated Additive-Increase Multiplicative-Decrease (AIMD) traffic sources and max-scalar scheduling policies (such as the popular Maximum Weight Matching - MWM) at switches. The latter were proved to be optimal in terms of throughput for stationary unregulated traffic sources. We describe the average dynamics of both traffic sources and switch queues through a system of Delay Differential Equations (DDEs), whose properties are thoroughly analyzed. Our study allows to gain important insights both on the system efficiency and on the long-term bandwidth share among connections. Our main finding is that AIMD sources and max-scalar switches coexist well.