A Machine Learning Approach to Improve Congestion Control over Wireless Computer Networks

Authors:
Pierre Geurts;Ibtissam El Khayat;Guy Leduc
Affiliations:
University of Liège, Belgium;University of Liège, Belgium;University of Liège, Belgium
Venue:
ICDM '04 Proceedings of the Fourth IEEE International Conference on Data Mining
Year:
2004

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Abstract

In this paper, we present the application of machine learning techniques to the improvement of the congestion control of TCP in wired/wireless networks. TCP is sub-optimal in hybrid wired/wireless networks because it reacts in the same way to losses due to congestion and losses due to link errors. We thus propose to use machine learning techniques to build automatically a loss classifier from a database obtained by simulations of random network topologies. Several machine learning algorithms are compared for this task and the best method for this application turns out to be decision tree boosting. It outperforms ad hoc classifiers proposed in the networking literature.