Random early detection gateways for congestion avoidance
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
Simulation-based comparisons of Tahoe, Reno and SACK TCP
ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review
Forward acknowledgement: refining TCP congestion control
Conference proceedings on Applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computer communications
Dynamics of random early detection
SIGCOMM '97 Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM '97 conference on Applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computer communication
Explicit allocation of best-effort packet delivery service
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
Adaptive packet marking for maintaining end-to-end throughput in a differentiated-services internet
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
On achievable service differentiation with token bucket marking for TCP
Proceedings of the 2000 ACM SIGMETRICS international conference on Measurement and modeling of computer systems
ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review
Beyond best effort: router architectures for the differentiated services of tomorrow's Internet
IEEE Communications Magazine
A report on recent developments in TCP congestion control
IEEE Communications Magazine
An analytical model of a new packet marking algorithm for TCP flows
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking - Selected papers from the 3rd international workshop on QoS in multiservice IP networks (QoS-IP 2005)
An analytical model of a new packet marking algorithm for TCP flows
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking - Selected papers from the 3rd international workshop on QoS in multiservice IP networks (QoS-IP 2005)
A lightweight marker with partial state information for DiffServ networks
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
An analytical model of a new packet marking algorithm for TCP flows
QoS-IP'05 Proceedings of the Third international conference on Quality of Service in Multiservice IP Networks
Lifetime-based TCP service differentiation
Computer Communications
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This paper proposes the use of TCP-aware network-based packet marking, which in conjunction with differential packet dropping, is a powerful way to improve the performance of buffer management for best-effort services on the Internet. We extend the notion of "TCP-Friendly" packet marking, proposed recently by us [6], and apply it to improve the performance of traditional best-effort services. The TCP-aware use of deterministic packet marking at the network edge allows us to protect selected TCP packets from suffering loss. This significantly reduces the total number of timeouts and avoids the resulting service degradation. In particular, we protect TCP sessions with very small windows, disperse packet loss across a given window, and protect retransmitted packets from encountering loss. We show baseline results which illustrate that the performance gains are considerable (orders of magnitude) when compared to stateful packet dropping algorithms like FRED [15], and even when TCP SACK [18] implementations are employed. The scheme has been implemented in Linux 2.2.10, and all the results are based upon experimental data.