Improving TCP performance and reducing self-induced congestion with receive window modulation

Francesco Ciaccia; Oriol Arcas-Abella; Ivan Romero; Rodolfo Milito; Rene Serral-Gracia; Mario Nemirovsky

doi:10.1109/ICCCN.2019.8847114

Improving TCP performance and reducing self-induced congestion with receive window modulation

Francesco Ciaccia (First Author)
, Oriol Arcas-Abella
, Ivan Romero
, Rodolfo Milito
, Rene Serral-Gracia
, Mario Nemirovsky

Polytechnic University of Catalonia
Clevernet Inc
Universitad de Cuenca

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2 Scopus citations

Abstract

We present a control module for software edge routers called Receive Window Modulation - RWM. Its main objective is to mitigate what we define as self-induced congestion: the result of traffic emission patterns at the source that cause buffering and packet losses in any of the intermediate routers along the path between the connection's endpoints. The controller modifies the receiver's TCP advertised window to match the computed bandwidth-delay product, based on the connection round-trip time estimation and the bandwidth locally available at the edge router. The implemented controller does not need any endpoint modification, allowing it to be deployed in corporate edge routers, increasing visibility and control capabilities. This scheme, when used in real-world experiments with loss-based congestion control algorithms such as CUBIC, is shown to optimize access link utilization and per-connection goodput, and to reduce latency variability and packet losses.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	ICCCN 2019 - 28th International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
ISBN (Electronic)	9781728118567
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCCN.2019.8847114
State	Published - Jul 2019
Externally published	Yes
Event	28th International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks, ICCCN 2019 - Valencia, Spain Duration: 29 Jul 2019 → 1 Aug 2019

Publication series

Name	Proceedings - International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks, ICCCN
Volume	2019-July
ISSN (Print)	1095-2055

Conference

Conference	28th International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks, ICCCN 2019
Country/Territory	Spain
City	Valencia
Period	29/07/19 → 1/08/19

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SDG 11 Sustainable Cities and Communities

Keywords

Edge router
Rate limiting
Self-induced congestion
TCP flow control

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Ciaccia, F., Arcas-Abella, O., Romero, I., Milito, R., Serral-Gracia, R., & Nemirovsky, M. (2019). Improving TCP performance and reducing self-induced congestion with receive window modulation. In ICCCN 2019 - 28th International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks Article 8847114 (Proceedings - International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks, ICCCN; Vol. 2019-July). Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCCN.2019.8847114

Ciaccia, Francesco ; Arcas-Abella, Oriol ; Romero, Ivan et al. / Improving TCP performance and reducing self-induced congestion with receive window modulation. ICCCN 2019 - 28th International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2019. (Proceedings - International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks, ICCCN).

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ICCCN 2019 - 28th International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2019. 8847114 (Proceedings - International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks, ICCCN; Vol. 2019-July).

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