Hybrid Modeling of TCP Congestion Control

  • Authors:
  • João Hespanha;Stephan Bohacek;Katia Obraczka;Junsoo Lee

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-;-

  • Venue:
  • HSCC '01 Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Hybrid Systems: Computation and Control
  • Year:
  • 2001

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Abstract

In this paper we propose a hybrid model for TCP's congestion control mechanism operating under drop-tail queuing policy. Using this model we confirmed the standard formula T := 1 23/RTT√ used by TCP-friendly congestion control algorithms, which relates the average packet drop rate p, the average round-trip time /TT, and the average throughput T. The hybrid model also allows us to understand the transient behavior and theoretically predict the flow synchronization phenomena that have been observed in simulations and in real networks but, to the best of our knowledge, have not been theoretically justified. This model can also be used to detect abnormalities in TCP traffic flows, which has important applications in network security.