QFCP: A router-assisted congestion control mechanism for heterogeneous networks (extended)

Pu Jian*, Mounir Hamdi

*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

Most existing end-to-end congestion control protocols employ packet loss or round-trip delay to imply network congestion. However, this kind of implicit signal mechanism may not work well in heterogeneous networks. Recently some router-assisted congestion control protocols are proposed to address this challenge and Quick Flow Control Protocol (QFCP) is one of them. QFCP allows flows to start with high initial sending rates and to converge to the fair-share rate quickly based on feedback from routers. The rate allocation algorithm is quite simple and only needs to be run periodically by routers. We have implemented QFCP in ns-2. Simulations have been done to address the issues such as flow completion time of Poisson-arriving Pareto-distributed-size flows, adaptability to changing flow numbers, fairness on flows with different RTTs, robustness to non-congestion packet losses, and performance on multiple bottleneck links. The preliminary results are promising.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationAdvanced Internet Based Systems and Applications - Second International Conference on Signal-Image Technology and Internet-Based Systems, SITIS 2006, Revised Selected Papers
Pages115-125
Number of pages11
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2009
Externally publishedYes
Event2nd International Conference on Signal-Image Technology and Internet-Based Systems, SITIS 2006 - Hammamet, Tunisia
Duration: 17 Dec 200621 Dec 2006

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume4879 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference2nd International Conference on Signal-Image Technology and Internet-Based Systems, SITIS 2006
Country/TerritoryTunisia
CityHammamet
Period17/12/0621/12/06

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