High performance TCP in ANSNET
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Modeling TCP throughput: a simple model and its empirical validation
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On the characteristics and origins of internet flow rates
Proceedings of the 2002 conference on Applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computer communications
Proceedings of the 2004 conference on Applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computer communications
Part I: buffer sizes for core routers
ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review
Part II: control theory for buffer sizing
ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review
Part III: routers with very small buffers
ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review
Fairness, QoS, and buffer sizing
ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review
Update on buffer sizing in internet routers
ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review
A critique of recently proposed buffer-sizing strategies
ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review
Diagnosis of capacity bottlenecks via passive monitoring in 3G networks: An empirical analysis
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An SLA perspective on the router buffer sizing problem
ACM SIGMETRICS Performance Evaluation Review
Router buffer sizing revisited: the role of the output/input capacity ratio
CoNEXT '07 Proceedings of the 2007 ACM CoNEXT conference
Experimental study of router buffer sizing
Proceedings of the 8th ACM SIGCOMM conference on Internet measurement
Simulation studies on router buffer sizing for short-lived and pacing TCP flows
Computer Communications
Buffer sizing results for RCP congestion control under connection arrivals and departures
ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review
Perspectives on router buffer sizing: recent results and open problems
ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review
Packet pacing in small buffer optical packet switched networks
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
Router buffer sizing for TCP traffic and the role of the output/input capacity ratio
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
A simple memory management system for packet buffers
DNCOCO'09 Proceedings of the 8th WSEAS international conference on Data networks, communications, computers
Bounds on end-to-end delay and jitter in input-buffered and internally-buffered IP networks
SARNOFF'09 Proceedings of the 32nd international conference on Sarnoff symposium
A low-jitter guaranteed-rate scheduling algorithm for packet-switched IP routers
IEEE Transactions on Communications
How expensive is link utilization?
NET-COOP'07 Proceedings of the 1st EuroFGI international conference on Network control and optimization
A statistical bandwidth sharing perspective on buffer sizing
ITC20'07 Proceedings of the 20th international teletraffic conference on Managing traffic performance in converged networks
The effects of fairness in buffer sizing
NETWORKING'07 Proceedings of the 6th international IFIP-TC6 conference on Ad Hoc and sensor networks, wireless networks, next generation internet
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
On the design of load factor based congestion control protocols for next-generation networks
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
Buffer sizing for 802.11-based networks
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
Hermes: an integrated CPU/GPU microarchitecture for IP routing
Proceedings of the 48th Design Automation Conference
Impact of file arrivals and departures on buffer sizing in core routers
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
Anomalous loss performance for mixed real-time and TCP traffic in routers with very small buffers
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
FIFO Service with Differentiated Queueing
Proceedings of the 2011 ACM/IEEE Seventh Symposium on Architectures for Networking and Communications Systems
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
Hybrid Simulation of Packet-Level Networks and Functional-Level Routers
PADS '12 Proceedings of the 2012 ACM/IEEE/SCS 26th Workshop on Principles of Advanced and Distributed Simulation
Proceedings of the 7th Latin American Networking Conference
Review: An initiative for a classified bibliography on TCP/IP congestion control
Journal of Network and Computer Applications
High-performance implementation of in-network traffic pacing for small-buffer networks
Computer Communications
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Recent research results suggest that the buffers of router interfaces can be made very small, much less than the link's and width-delay product, without causing a utilization loss, as long as the link carries many TCP flows. In this letter we raise some concerns about the previous recommendation. We show that the use of such small buffers can lead to excessively high loss rates (up to 5%-15%in our simulations) in congested access links that carry many flows. Even if the link is fully utilized, small buffers lead to lower throughput for most large TCP flows, and significant variability in the per-flow throughput and transfer latency. We also discuss some important issues in router buffer sizing that are often ignored