Receiver based management of low bandwidth access links
| Title | Receiver based management of low bandwidth access links |
| Publication Type | Conference Papers |
| Year of Publication | 2000 |
| Authors | Spring N, Chesire M, Berryman M, Sahasranaman V, Anderson T, Bershad B |
| Conference Name | IEEE INFOCOM 2000. Nineteenth Annual Joint Conference of the IEEE Computer and Communications Societies. Proceedings |
| Date Published | 2000/// |
| Publisher | IEEE |
| ISBN Number | 0-7803-5880-5 |
| Keywords | Bandwidth, buffer storage, bulk-transfer applications, complex Web page, congestion control policy, Delay, dynamically loadable Linux kernel module, information resources, interactive network, Internet, Kernel, link utilization, Linux, low-bandwidth access links, mixed traffic load, packet latency, queue length, queueing theory, receive socket buffer sizes, receiver-based management, response time, short flow prioritizing, Size control, Sockets, subscriber loops, TCP flow control, telecommunication congestion control, telecommunication network management, Telecommunication traffic, Testing, Throughput, Transport protocols, Unix, Web pages |
| Abstract | In this paper, we describe a receiver-based congestion control policy that leverages TCP flow control mechanisms to prioritize mixed traffic loads across access links. We manage queueing at the access link to: (1) improve the response time of interactive network applications; (2) reduce congestion-related packet losses; while (3) maintaining high throughput for bulk-transfer applications. Our policy controls queue length by manipulating receive socket buffer sizes. We have implemented this solution in a dynamically loadable Linux kernel module, and tested it over low-bandwidth links. Our approach yields a 7-fold improvement in packet latency over an unmodified system while maintaining 94% link utilization. In the common case, congestion-related packet losses at the access link can be eliminated. Finally, by prioritizing short flows, we show that our system reduces the time to download a complex Web page during a large background transfer by a factor of two |
| DOI | 10.1109/INFCOM.2000.832194 |