[Iccrg] benchmarking new tcp congestion control algorithms

[Douglas Leith]

Just posted this to the end2end list, but in view of the discussions  
at pfldnet last week and the agenda for the iccrg meeting tomorrow,  
it might be topical for iccrg.

I've put together a set of short ns scripts to carry out the tcp  
benchmark tests described in

Experimental evaluation of high-speed congestion control protocols,  
Li, Y.T, Leith,D., Shorten,R. Transactions on Networking, 2007 (see  
http://www.hamilton.ie/net/eval/ToNfinal.pdf).

The ns scripts are at http://www.hamilton.ie/net/eval/tcptesting.zip.

Its now very easy to rerun these tests against proposed new  
congestion control algorithms.  Baseline tests for standard tcp, high- 
speed tcp, scalable tcp, bic tcp, fast tcp and htcp are reported in  
http://www.hamilton.ie/net/eval/ToNfinal.pdf and these experimental  
measurements can be directly compared against the simulation results  
generated by the script.

Let me know if you have any comments.

Doug