[Iccrg] WG Last call for "Coupled Congestion Control for Multipath
Transport Protocols"
philip.eardley
philip.eardley at bt.com
Thu Mar 24 19:42:13 GMT 2011
Hi,
This starts a WG last call for the MPTCP WG's congestion control draft, http://tools.ietf.org/wg/mptcp/draft-ietf-mptcp-congestion/
Since we are near the IETF, we will run until 22nd April.
Thank-you to Michael Tüxen and Michael Welzl for reviewing it from an ICCRG perspective, also Howard Tripp's review, and to Costin for updating it.
Best wishes,
Phil & Yoshifumi.
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Abstract
Often endpoints are connected by multiple paths, but communications
are usually restricted to a single path per connection. Resource
usage within the network would be more efficient were it possible for
these multiple paths to be used concurrently. Multipath TCP is a
proposal to achieve multipath transport in TCP.
New congestion control algorithms are needed for multipath transport
protocols such as Multipath TCP, as single path algorithms have a
series of issues in the multipath context. One of the prominent
problems is that running existing algorithms such as TCP New Reno
independently on each path would give the multipath flow more than
its fair share at a bottleneck link traversed by more than one of its
subflows. Further, it is desirable that a source with multiple paths
available will transfer more traffic using the least congested of the
paths, hence achieving resource pooling. This would increase the
overall efficiency of the network and also its robustness to failure.
This document presents a congestion control algorithm which couples
the congestion control algorithms running on different subflows by
linking their increase functions, and dynamically controls the
overall aggresiveness of the multipath flow. The result is a
practical algorithm that is fair to TCP at bottlenecks while moving
traffic away from congested links.
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