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Start Me Up: Determining and Sharing TCP's Initial Congestion Window

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Safiqul Islam and

Michael WelzlAuthors Info & Claims

ANRW '16: Proceedings of the 2016 Applied Networking Research Workshop

July 2016

Pages 52 - 54

https://doi.org/10.1145/2959424.2959440

Published: 16 July 2016 Publication History

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When multiple TCP connections are used between the same host pair, they often share a common bottleneck -- especially when they are encapsulated together, e.g. in VPN scenarios. Then, all connections after the first should not have to guess the right initial value for the congestion window, but rather get the appropriate value from other connections. This allows short flows to complete much faster -- but it can also lead to large bursts that cause problems on their own. Prior work used timer-based pacing methods to alleviate this problem; we introduce a new algorithm that ``paces'' packets by instead correctly maintaining the ACK clock, and show its positive impact in combination with a previously presented congestion coupling algorithm.

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ANRW '16: Proceedings of the 2016 Applied Networking Research Workshop

July 2016

93 pages

ISBN:9781450344432

DOI:10.1145/2959424

Program Chairs:
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NetApp
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Colin Perkins
University of Glasgow

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