[Iccrg] Re: [e2e] Reasons not to deply TCP BIC/Cubic
sannikov
sannikov at cs.karelia.ru
Wed Nov 30 14:55:59 GMT 2011
Hello.
I'm not so familiar with CUBIC, but it is really aggressive.
And as far as I know Linux implementation is little bit differ from the
original.
Did have original version same problems?
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With best regards, Alexander Sannikov.
On Wed, 30 Nov 2011 13:08:05 +0100, Saverio Mascolo
<saverio.mascolo at gmail.com> wrote:
> yes!
>
> On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 12:56 PM, Michael Welzl wrote:
> This should really go to ICCRG, I'd say (added to recipients). May I
ask
> to continue this (interesting!) discussion there?
>
> On 11/30/11 12:10 PM, mascolo at poliba.it [2] wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> we know that TCP BIC/Cubic is default in Linux and as a consequence 50%
> of servers employs TCP BIC/Cubic.
>
> Our measurements say that there could be reasons not to deploy TCP
> BIC/Cubic. These reasons are in our opinion rooted in its more
> aggressive probing phase. In particular, in common network conditions,
> TCP BIC/CUBIC exhibits: 1. a larger RTT average wrt to TCP NewReno or
TCP
> Westwood+; 2. a larger number of retransmission wrt to TCP NewReno or
TCP
> Westwood+; 3 larger throughput but same goodput wrt to TCP NewReno or
> Westwood+.
>
> In other terms, it seems that its more aggressive probing increases
both
> throughput and retransmissions but leaving unchanged the goodput. This
is
> neutral for the users but negative for the network.
>
> I appreciate your views.
>
> Thanks for the attention and best regards,
>
> Saverio Mascolo
>
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