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Title: A simulation-based study of HighSpeed TCP and its deployment

Thesis/Dissertation ·
DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/813586· OSTI ID:813586
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  1. Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States)

The current congestion control mechanism used in TCP has difficulty reaching full utilization on high speed links, particularly on wide-area connections. For example, the packet drop rate needed to fill a Gigabit pipe using the present TCP protocol is below the currently achievable fiber optic error rates. HighSpeed TCP was recently proposed as a modification of TCP's congestion control mechanism to allow it to achieve reasonable performance in high speed wide-area links. In this research, simulation results showing the performance of HighSpeed TCP and the impact of its use on the present implementation of TCP are presented. Network conditions including different degrees of congestion, different levels of loss rate, different degrees of bursty traffic and two distinct router queue management policies were simulated. The performance and fairness of HighSpeed TCP were compared to the existing TCP and solutions for bulk-data transfer using parallel streams.

Research Organization:
Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
Office of Science. Computational and Technology Research (US)
DOE Contract Number:
AC03-76SF00098
OSTI ID:
813586
Report Number(s):
LBNL-52549; R&D Project: K52008; TRN: US200316%%274
Resource Relation:
Other Information: TH: Thesis (M.S.); Submitted to the State University of Campinas, Campinas/Sao Paulo (Brazil); PBD: 29 Apr 2003
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English