Analysis and enhancement of TCP Vegas congestion control in a mixed TCP Vegas and TCP Reno network scenario

Authors:
Andrea De Vendictis;Andrea Baiocchi;Michela Bonacci
Affiliations:
INFOCOM Department, University of Roma "La Sapienza", Via Eudossiana 18, 00184 Rome, Italy;INFOCOM Department, University of Roma "La Sapienza", Via Eudossiana 18, 00184 Rome, Italy;INFOCOM Department, University of Roma "La Sapienza", Via Eudossiana 18, 00184 Rome, Italy
Venue:
Performance Evaluation
Year:
2003

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Abstract

Its more refined congestion control mechanisms, also based on the estimation of round trip delays, allow TCP Vegas to outperform the more widespread TCP Reno congestion control, based only on the packet loss detection, in a number of network environments. However, these mechanisms make TCP Vegas less aggressive with respect to TCP Reno; thereby TCP Vegas sources show high weakness in taking the available bandwidth when competing with other TCP Reno sources. This is a major reason that hinders the spread of TCP Vegas among Internet users. In this work, after a preliminary analytic study about the limits of TCP Vegas in mixed network environments, we describe a new adaptive mechanism for TCP Vegas, called TCP NewVegas, designed in order to improve its performance even in heterogeneous network scenarios. The large number of simulations, presented in this paper, show that TCP New Vegas guarantees good performance even in mixed network environments, without canceling the desirable features (e.g. fairness) that TCP Vegas exhibits in homogeneous environments.