High Transmission Control Protocol Research Articles

Fairness Evaluation and Comparison of Current Congestion Control Techniques.

Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) is used by many applications on the Internet for the reliable data transmission. TCP does not able to utilize the available link bandwidth quickly and efficiently in High bandwidth short distance (HBSD) and high bandwidth long distance (HBLD) networks. Many congestion control techniques also known as TCP variants are developed to solve these problems in different network environments. In this paper an experimental analysis is done for the performance evaluation of TCP CUBIC, TCP Compound, TCP Reno and High speed TCP in term of Inter and Intra Protocol fairness by using Network Simulator 2 (NS-2). Results show that the performance of TCP CUBIC pathetically down and TCP Compound and TCP Reno shows good performance in term of protocol fairness. However, these congestion control techniques still need more improvement for the utilization of available link bandwidth in HBLD networks and other network resources.

Fuzzy Logic-Based Round Trip Time Scaling and Scheduling in High Speed TCP Stacks

Network management and control is a complex problem that requires intelligent, control methodologies to obtain satisfactory performance. Round trip time (RTT) scaling mechanism has been introduced for changing congestion window and to perform congestion control satisfactorily in all circumstances. This paper presents a fuzzy RTT scaling (FRTTS) scheme that performs RTT scaling and RTT scheduling for different high speed transmission control protocol (TCP) networks. In this scheme, RTT samples are allocated requesting application by using RTT scheduling factor and RTT samples are scaled for an application by using RTT scaling factor. A RTT scaler placed at the end node performs the RTT scheduling as well as RTT scaling. We also apply a FRTTS scheme on different high speed TCP’s namely high-TCP (H-TCP) and scalable-TCP(S-TCP) and demonstrates that it provides better performance than non fuzzy scheme. The scheme has been extensively simulated to test the performance in terms of flow rate, RTT flows, packet size and congestion window size. The results show that FRTTS scheme provides better performance than non fuzzy scheme which employs dynamic RTT scheduling and RTT scaling.

Design of optimal Active Queue Management controllers for HSTCP in large bandwidth-delay product networks

Several variants of the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) have been proposed for overcoming the inefficiency of the TCP Reno when operating in high-speed networks. However, these variants by themselves cannot prevent network congestion. Congestion avoidance also relies on other mechanisms, such as Active Queue Management (AQM). This paper introduces a novel optimal AQM policy to operate in networks that adopt the High Speed TCP (HSTCP) variant as their transport protocol. The effectiveness of various optimal controllers is evaluated and the performance of the new policy is compared to that of Random Early Detection (RED) policy. Results, derived via simulation, reveal the advantages of adopting HSTCP-H2 in large bandwidth-delay product networks.

Novel acknowledgement-based assembly and scheduling mechanisms in optical burst switching grid networks

The authors investigate how to improve real transmission control protocol (TCP) performance over optical burst switching (OBS) networks, providing larger available bandwidth and reliability. Considering the acknowledgement (ACK) packet losses, a simple modified analytic model is studied to give the real steady-state TCP throughput over OBS networks. The effect of ACK losses is analyzed based on the calculation and simulation results, and it is concluded that eliminating or mitigating ACK losses should improve the performance. Then, at the OBS routers, two novel ACK-based assembly and scheduling mechanisms, viz. a timer-based ACK assembly scheme and an ACK priority scheduling scheme, are proposed. Simulation results demonstrate that compared with conventional assembly and scheduling algorithms, the two new mechanisms can improve TCP performance over OBS networks to great extent, meeting the requirements of grid networks, such as lower network burst loss probability to provide reliable performance, and higher TCP throughput to increase the available bandwidth. It is also seen through comparison that the novel ACK priority scheduling mechanism has better performance than the usual one.