Abstract
TCP over bandwidth asymmetric networks such as Cable TV and Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Loop (ADSL) exhibits different characteristics from TCP on symmetric links. A number of techniques have been proposed to address this problem. However, previous research has been largely focused on bulk transfers. This paper investigates the effects of bandwidth asymmetry on Web-like short-lived transfers. Two prediction models, one given in a closed form and the other in a recursive form, are presented for TCP transfers without and with ACK Filtering (AF), a representative optimizing technique for TCP transfers over bandwidth asymmetric links. Ns-2 based experiments show that these models can predict TCP transfer latency with a high degree of accuracy.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 1201-1210 |
Number of pages | 10 |
Journal | Journal of Computer and System Sciences |
Volume | 72 |
Issue number | 7 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - Nov 2006 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:✩ This research is sponsored in part by grants from the NASA AMES Research Center (administrated by USARDSG, contract No. N68171-01-C-9012), the EPSRC (contract No. GR/R47424/01) and the EPSRC e-Science Core Programme (contract No. GR/S03058/01). * Corresponding author. E-mail addresses: gtan@dcs.warwick.ac.uk (G. Tan), saj@dcs.warwick.ac.uk (S.A. Jarvis).
Keywords
- Bandwidth asymmetry
- Prediction
- Short-lived
- TCP transfer
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Theoretical Computer Science
- Computer Networks and Communications
- Computational Theory and Mathematics
- Applied Mathematics