Lightweight and Flexible Single-Path Congestion Control Coupling

Abstract

Communication between two Internet hosts using parallel connections may result in unwanted interference between the connections. In this dissertation, we propose a sender-side solution to address this problem by letting the congestion controllers of the different connections collaborate, correctly taking congestion control logic into account. In addition, this dissertation proposes a simple light-weight encapsulation mechanism that multiplexes the connections onto a single UDP-connection to ensure the same bottleneck. Real-life experiments and simulations show that our solution works for a wide variety of congestion control mechanisms, provides great flexibility when allocating application traffic to the connections, and results in lower queuing delay and less packet loss.

Publication
PhD Thesis, Department of Informatics, University of Oslo : Opponents: Professor Jörg Ott and Assoc. Professor Colin Perkins

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