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Book Delay oriented Active Queue Management in TCP IP Networks

Download or read book Delay oriented Active Queue Management in TCP IP Networks written by Bo Yu and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Internet-based applications and services are pervading everyday life. Moreover, the growing popularity of real-time, time-critical and mission-critical applications set new challenges to the Internet community. The requirement for reducing response time, and therefore latency control is increasingly emphasized. This thesis seeks to reduce queueing delay through active queue management. While mathematical studies and research simulations reveal that complex trade-off relationships exist among performance indices such as throughput, packet loss ratio and delay, etc., this thesis intends to find an improved active queue management algorithm which emphasizes delay control without trading much on other performance indices such as throughput and packet loss ratio. The thesis observes that in TCP/IP network, packet loss ratio is a major reflection of congestion severity or load. With a properly functioning active queue management algorithm, traffic load will in general push the feedback system to an equilibrium point in terms of packet loss ratio and throughput. On the other hand, queue length is a determinant factor on system delay performance while has only a slight influence on the equilibrium. This observation suggests the possibility of reducing delay while maintaining throughput and packet loss ratio relatively unchanged. The thesis also observes that queue length fluctuation is a reflection of both load changes and natural fluctuation in arriving bit rate. Monitoring queue length fluctuation alone cannot distinguish the difference and identify congestion status; and yet identifying this difference is crucial in finding out situations where average queue size and hence queueing delay can be properly controlled and reasonably reduced. However, many existing active queue management algorithms only monitor queue length, and their control policies are solely based on this measurement. In our studies, our novel finding is that the arriving bit rate distribution of all sources contains information which can be a better indication of congestion status and has a correlation with traffic burstiness. And this thesis develops a simple and scalable way to measure its two most important characteristics, namely the mean ii and the variance of the arriving rate distribution. The measuring mechanism is based on a Zombie List mechanism originally proposed and deployed in Stabilized RED to estimate the number of flows and identify misbehaving flows. This thesis modifies the original zombie list measuring mechanism, makes it capable of measuring additional variables. Based on these additional measurements, this thesis proposes a novel modification to the RED algorithm. It utilizes a robust adaptive mechanism to ensure that the system reaches proper equilibrium operating points in terms of packet loss ratio and queueing delay under various loads. Furthermore, it identifies different congestion status where traffic is less bursty and adapts RED parameters in order to reduce average queue size and hence queueing delay accordingly. Using ns-2 simulation platform, this thesis runs simulations of a single bottleneck link scenario which represents an important and popular application scenario such as home access network or SoHo. Simulation results indicate that there are complex trade-off relationships among throughput, packet loss ratio and delay; and in these relationships delay can be substantially reduced whereas trade-offs on throughput and packet loss ratio are negligible. Simulation results show that our proposed active queue management algorithm can identify circumstances where traffic is less bursty and actively reduce queueing delay with hardly noticeable sacrifice on throughput and packet loss ratio performances. In conclusion, our novel approach enables the application of adaptive techniques to more RED parameters including those affecting queue occupancy and hence queueing delay. The new modification to RED algorithm is a scalable approach and does not introduce additional protocol overhead. In general it brings the benefit of substantially reduced delay at the cost of limited processing overhead and negligible degradation in throughput and packet loss ratio. However, our new algorithm is only tested on responsive flows and a single bottleneck scenario. Its effectiveness on a combination of responsive and non-responsive flows as well as in more complicated network topology scenarios is left for future work.

Book Delay oriented Active Queue Management in TCP

Download or read book Delay oriented Active Queue Management in TCP written by Bo Yu and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Internet-based applications and services are pervading everyday life. Moreover, the growing popularity of real-time, time-critical and mission-critical applications set new challenges to the Internet community. The requirement for reducing response time, and therefore latency control is increasingly emphasized. This thesis seeks to reduce queueing delay through active queue management. While mathematical studies and research simulations reveal that complex trade-off relationships exist among performance indices such as throughput, packet loss ratio and delay, etc., this thesis intends to find an improved active queue management algorithm which emphasizes delay control without trading much on other performance indices such as throughput and packet loss ratio. The thesis observes that in TCP/IP network, packet loss ratio is a major reflection of congestion severity or load. With a properly functioning active queue management algorithm, traffic load will in general push the feedback system to an equilibrium point in terms of packet loss ratio and throughput. On the other hand, queue length is a determinant factor on system delay performance while has only a slight influence on the equilibrium. This observation suggests the possibility of reducing delay while maintaining throughput and packet loss ratio relatively unchanged. The thesis also observes that queue length fluctuation is a reflection of both load changes and natural fluctuation in arriving bit rate. Monitoring queue length fluctuation alone cannot distinguish the difference and identify congestion status; and yet identifying this difference is crucial in finding out situations where average queue size and hence queueing delay can be properly controlled and reasonably reduced. However, many existing active queue management algorithms only monitor queue length, and their control policies are solely based on this measurement. In our studies, our novel finding is that the arriving bit rate distribution of all sources contains information which can be a better indication of congestion status and has a correlation with traffic burstiness. And this thesis develops a simple and scalable way to measure its two most important characteristics, namely the mean ii and the variance of the arriving rate distribution. The measuring mechanism is based on a Zombie List mechanism originally proposed and deployed in Stabilized RED to estimate the number of flows and identify misbehaving flows. This thesis modifies the original zombie list measuring mechanism, makes it capable of measuring additional variables. Based on these additional measurements, this thesis proposes a novel modification to the RED algorithm. It utilizes a robust adaptive mechanism to ensure that the system reaches proper equilibrium operating points in terms of packet loss ratio and queueing delay under various loads. Furthermore, it identifies different congestion status where traffic is less bursty and adapts RED parameters in order to reduce average queue size and hence queueing delay accordingly. Using ns-2 simulation platform, this thesis runs simulations of a single bottleneck link scenario which represents an important and popular application scenario such as home access network or SoHo. Simulation results indicate that there are complex trade-off relationships among throughput, packet loss ratio and delay; and in these relationships delay can be substantially reduced whereas trade-offs on throughput and packet loss ratio are negligible. Simulation results show that our proposed active queue management algorithm can identify circumstances where traffic is less bursty and actively reduce queueing delay with hardly noticeable sacrifice on throughput and packet loss ratio performances. In conclusion, our novel approach enables the application of adaptive techniques to more RED parameters including those affecting queue occupancy and hence queueing delay. The new modification to RED algorithm is a scalable approach and does not introduce additional protocol overhead. In general it brings the benefit of substantially reduced delay at the cost of limited processing overhead and negligible degradation in throughput and packet loss ratio. However, our new algorithm is only tested on responsive flows and a single bottleneck scenario. Its effectiveness on a combination of responsive and non-responsive flows as well as in more complicated network topology scenarios is left for future work.

Book Fast Active Queue Management Stability Transmission Control Protocol  FAST TCP

Download or read book Fast Active Queue Management Stability Transmission Control Protocol FAST TCP written by Christo Ananth and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2017-10-10 with total page 67 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Project Report from the year 2017 in the subject Engineering - Computer Engineering, grade: 4.5, , language: English, abstract: In this project, we describe FAST TCP, a new TCP congestion control algorithm for high-speed long-latency networks, from design to implementation. We highlight the approach taken by FAST TCP to address the four difficulties, at both packet and flow levels, which the current TCP implementation has at large windows. We describe the architecture and characterize the equilibrium and stability properties of FAST TCP. We present experimental results comparing our first Linux prototype with TCP Reno, HSTCP, and STCP in terms of throughput, fairness, stability, and responsiveness. FAST TCP aims to rapidly stabilize high-speed long-latency networks into steady, efficient and fair operating points, in dynamic sharing environments, and the preliminary results are produced as output of our project. We also explain our project with the help of an existing real-time example as to explain why we go for the TCP download rather than FTP download. The real-time example that is chosen is Torrents which we use for Bulk and safe-downloading. We finally conclude with the results of our new congestion control algorithm aided with the graphs obtained during its simulation in NS2.

Book The Effects of Active Queue Management on Tcp Application Performance

Download or read book The Effects of Active Queue Management on Tcp Application Performance written by Long Le and published by LAP Lambert Academic Publishing. This book was released on 2009-11 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Active queue management (AQM) has been proposed by networking researchers and the Internet Engineering Task Force as a measure to preserve and improve Internet performance but has not been thoroughly evaluated under realistic conditions. This book investigates the effects of several AQM algorithms on the performance of TCP applications under realistic conditions. Our primary results are that many existing AQM algorithms do not perform as well as expected when they are used with packet dropping. However, when combined with packet marking, AQM algorithms significantly improve network and application performance over conventional drop-tail queues. Moreover, AQM enables network operators to run their networks near saturation levels with only modest increases in average response times. If packet marking is unavailable, the book presents a new form of differential treatment of flows that can be used with packet dropping and achieves a similar positive performance improvement. The book also develops a new AQM algorithm that can balance between loss rate and queuing delay to improve the overall system performance.

Book End to End Adaptive Congestion Control in TCP IP Networks

Download or read book End to End Adaptive Congestion Control in TCP IP Networks written by Christos N. Houmkozlis and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2017-12-19 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Establishing adaptive control as an alternative framework to design and analyze Internet congestion controllers, End-to-End Adaptive Congestion Control in TCP/IP Networks employs a rigorously mathematical approach coupled with a lucid writing style to provide extensive background and introductory material on dynamic systems stability and neural network approximation; alongside future internet requests for congestion control architectures. Designed to operate under extreme heterogeneous, dynamic, and time-varying network conditions, the developed controllers must also handle network modeling structural uncertainties and uncontrolled traffic flows acting as external perturbations. The book also presents a parallel examination of specific adaptive congestion control, NNRC, using adaptive control and approximation theory, as well as extensions toward cooperation of NNRC with application QoS control. Features: Uses adaptive control techniques for congestion control in packet switching networks Employs a rigorously mathematical approach with lucid writing style Presents simulation experiments illustrating significant operational aspects of the method; including scalability, dynamic behavior, wireless networks, and fairness Applies to networked applications in the music industry, computers, image trading, and virtual groups by techniques such as peer-to-peer, file sharing, and internet telephony Contains working examples to highlight and clarify key attributes of the congestion control algorithms presented Drawing on the recent research efforts of the authors, the book offers numerous tables and figures to increase clarity and summarize the algorithms that implement various NNRC building blocks. Extensive simulations and comparison tests analyze its behavior and measure its performance through monitoring vital network quality metrics. Divided into three parts, the book offers a review of computer networks and congestion control, presents an adaptive congestion control framework as an alternative to optimization methods, and provides appendices related to dynamic systems through universal neural network approximators.

Book Active Queue Management and Scheduling Methods for Packet switched Networks

Download or read book Active Queue Management and Scheduling Methods for Packet switched Networks written by Ozdemir Akin and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 101 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Keywords: quality of service, TCP/IP, scheduling, active queue management.

Book Some Active Queue Management Methods for Controlling Packet Queueing Delay

Download or read book Some Active Queue Management Methods for Controlling Packet Queueing Delay written by Mahmud H. Etbega Mohamed and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traditionally the Internet is used for the following applications: FTP, e-mail and Web traffic. However in the recent years the Internet is increasingly supporting emerging applications such as IP telephony, video conferencing and online games. These new applications have different requirements in terms of throughput and delay than traditional applications. For example, interactive multimedia applications, unlike traditional applications, have more strict delay constraints and less strict loss constraints. Unfortunately, the current Internet offers only a best-effort service to all applications without any consideration to the applications specific requirements. In this thesis three existing Active Queue Management (AQM) mechanisms are modified by incorporating into these a control function to condition routers for better Quality of Service (QoS). Specifically, delay is considered as the key QoS metric as it is the most important metric for real-time multimedia applications. The first modified mechanism is Drop Tail (DT), which is a simple mechanism in comparison with most AQM schemes. A dynamic threshold has been added to DT in order to maintain packet queueing delay at a specified value. The modified mechanism is referred to as Adaptive Drop Tail (ADT). The second mechanism considered is Early Random Drop (ERD) and, iii in a similar way to ADT, a dynamic threshold has been used to keep the delay at a required value, the main difference being that packets are now dropped probabilistically before the queue reaches full capacity. This mechanism is referred to as Adaptive Early Random Drop (AERD). The final mechanism considered is motivated by the well known Random Early Detection AQM mechanism and is effectively a multi-threshold version of AERD in which packets are dropped with a linear function between the two thresholds and the second threshold is moveable in order to change the slope of the dropping function. This mechanism is called Multi Threshold Adaptive Early Random Drop (MTAERD) and is used in a similar way to the other mechanisms to maintain delay around a specified level. The main focus with all the mechanisms is on queueing delay, which is a significant component of end-to-end delay, and also on reducing the jitter (delay variation) A control algorithm is developed using an analytical model that specifies the delay as a function of the queue threshold position and this function has been used in a simulation to adjust the threshold to an effective value to maintain the delay around a specified value as the packet arrival rate changes over time. iv A two state Markov Modulated Poisson Process is used as the arrival process to each of the three systems to introduce burstiness and correlation of the packet inter-arrival times and to present sudden changes in the arrival process as might be encountered when TCP is used as the transport protocol and step changes the size of its congestion window. In the investigations it is assumed the traffic source is a mixture of TCP and UDP traffic and that the mechanisms conserved apply to the TCP based data. It is also assumed that this consists of the majority proportion of the total traffic so that the control mechanisms have a significant effect on controlling the overall delay. The three mechanisms are evaluated using a Java framework and results are presented showing the amount of improvement in QoS that can be achieved by the mechanisms over their non-adaptive counterparts. The mechanisms are also compared with each other and conclusions drawn.

Book Complex Systems  Spanning Control and Computational Cybernetics  Applications

Download or read book Complex Systems Spanning Control and Computational Cybernetics Applications written by Peng Shi and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-09-18 with total page 551 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, dedicated to Professor Georgi M. Dimirovski on his anniversary, contains new research directions, challenges, and many relevant applications related to many aspects within the broadly perceived areas of systems and control, including signal analysis and intelligent systems. The project comprises two volumes with papers written by well known and very active researchers and practitioners. The first volume is focused on more foundational aspects related to general issues in systems science and mathematical systems, various problems in control and automation, and the use of computational and artificial intelligence in the context of systems modeling and control. The second volume is concerned with a presentation of relevant applications, notably in robotics, computer networks, telecommunication, fault detection/diagnosis, as well as in biology and medicine, and economic, financial, and social systems too.

Book Congestion Control in Data Transmission Networks

Download or read book Congestion Control in Data Transmission Networks written by Przemysław Ignaciuk and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-08-01 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Congestion Control in Data Transmission Networks details the modeling and control of data traffic in communication networks. It shows how various networking phenomena can be represented in a consistent mathematical framework suitable for rigorous formal analysis. The monograph differentiates between fluid-flow continuous-time traffic models, discrete-time processes with constant sampling rates, and sampled-data systems with variable discretization periods. The authors address a number of difficult real-life problems, such as: optimal control of flows with disparate, time-varying delay; the existence of source and channel nonlinearities; the balancing of quality of service and fairness requirements; and the incorporation of variable rate allocation policies. Appropriate control mechanisms which can handle congestion and guarantee high throughput in various traffic scenarios (with different networking phenomena being considered) are proposed. Systematic design procedures using sound control-theoretic foundations are adopted. Since robustness issues are of major concern in providing efficient data-flow regulation in today’s networks, sliding-mode control is selected as the principal technique to be applied in creating the control solutions. The controller derivation is given extensive analytical treatment and is supported with numerous realistic simulations. A comparison with existing solutions is also provided. The concepts applied are discussed in a number of illustrative examples, and supported by many figures, tables, and graphs walking the reader through the ideas and introducing their relevance in real networks. Academic researchers and graduate students working in computer networks and telecommunications and in control (especially time-delay systems and discrete-time optimal and sliding-mode control) will find this text a valuable assistance in ensuring smooth data-flow within communications networks.

Book Performance of Robust Active Queue Management Schemes and Window Adaptation Schemes in IP Network

Download or read book Performance of Robust Active Queue Management Schemes and Window Adaptation Schemes in IP Network written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Internet today has emerged as a ubiquitous network consisting of globally-shared resources. Optimal sharing of these resources raises the issue of resource and cost allocation which, in turn, leads to network performance modelling. In our work we emphasize the importance of performance evaluation and monitoring of network resources to achieve their optimal utilization. We analyze the network as a decoupled system consisting of end nodes and routers. We analyze the algorithms running on each component and propose modifications. For the router we study the existing and widely-deployed active queue management scheme, Random Early Detection (RED) and its predecessor, TailDrop scheme. Emphasizing robustness and end-to-end delay, we propose our modification to RED and show that it achieves better results compared to RED. Similarly, for the end nodes, we explore the window adaptation scheme of the widely-deployed cooperative transport protocol, TCP Reno. Stressing packet re-sent ratio and power, we show that our proposed modification of window adaptation schemes achieves better performance than TCP Reno. For a more balanced research we compute the algorithmic complexity of each algorithm to show that better results can be achieved at the expense of increased algorithmic complexity.

Book Active Queue Management and Scheduling Methods for Packet Switched Networks

Download or read book Active Queue Management and Scheduling Methods for Packet Switched Networks written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To support the myriad of envisioned communication products of the future, there is a need to develop a network infrastructure that can provide larger bandwidth, with better control of quality of service (QoS). However, with increasing demand for applications running over packet networks, congestion at the intermediate nodes (e.g., routers and switches) can be a serious problem. Consequences include long delays, large delay variation and high packet loss rates. Different solutions requiring varying levels of modification to the currently used algorithms have been proposed both for responsive (e.g., TCP) and unresponsive (e.g., UDP) protocols. However, most of the solutions are either too complicated to implement in real life or not general enough to be applicable to an arbitrary network topology. In this thesis, we investigate two mechanisms - active queue management (AQM), and scheduling - that can improve QoS in the packet networks. AQM techniques attempt to prevent congestion and regulate the queue length by sending congestion signals (i.e., dropping and/or marking packets) in a proactive manner, which would eventually cause the senders to decrease their sending rates. We use an analytic model derived for TCP in the literature to develop an AQM scheme that not only controls the queue length at the intermediate nodes but also distributes the resources fairly between the users. We present two different schemes that have different levels of complexity and performance. We also propose a distributed networking scheme that improves the performance of our new AQM algorithms. Although AQM schemes work well with responsive protocols such as TCP, the performance degrades for unresponsive protocols since unresponsive protocols do not change their packet sending rate in response to the congestion notifications sent by the network. Scheduling algorithms can regulate both responsive and unresponsive flows and can also provide guarantees on some QoS parameters, such as latency a.

Book Performance Modelling and Evaluation of Active Queue Management Techniques in Communication Networks

Download or read book Performance Modelling and Evaluation of Active Queue Management Techniques in Communication Networks written by Hussein F. Abdel-Jaber and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the field of computer networks has rapidly grown in the last two decades, congestion control of traffic loads within networks has become a high priority. Congestion occurs in network routers when the number of incoming packets exceeds the available network resources, such as buffer space and bandwidth allocation. This may result in a poor network performance with reference to average packet queueing delay, packet loss rate and throughput. To enhance the performance when the network becomes congested, several different active queue management (AQM) methods have been proposed and some of these are discussed in this thesis. Specifically, these AQM methods are surveyed in detail and their strengths and limitations are highlighted. A comparison is conducted between five known AQM methods, Random Early Detection (RED), Gentle Random Early Detection (GRED), Adaptive Random Early Detection (ARED), Dynamic Random Early Drop (DRED) and BLUE, based on several performance measures, including mean queue length, throughput, average queueing delay, overflow packet loss probability, packet dropping probability and the total of overflow loss and dropping probabilities for packets, with the aim of identifying which AQM method gives the most satisfactory results of the performance measures. This thesis presents a new AQM approach based on the RED algorithm that determines and controls the congested router buffers in an early stage. This approach is called Dynamic RED (REDD), which stabilises the average queue length between minimum and maximum threshold positions at a certain level called the target level to prevent building up the queues in the router buffers. A comparison is made between the proposed REDD, RED and ARED approaches regarding the above performance measures. Moreover, three methods based on RED and fuzzy logic are proposed to control the congested router buffers incipiently. These methods are named REDD1, REDD2, and REDD3 and their performances are also compared with RED using the above performance measures to identify which method achieves the most satisfactory results. Furthermore, a set of discrete-time queue analytical models are developed based on the following approaches: RED, GRED, DRED and BLUE, to detect the congestion at router buffers in an early stage. The proposed analytical models use the instantaneous queue length as a congestion measure to capture short term changes in the input and prevent packet loss due to overflow. The proposed analytical models are experimentally compared with their corresponding AQM simulations with reference to the above performance measures to identify which approach gives the most satisfactory results. The simulations for RED, GRED, ARED, DRED, BLUE, REDD, REDD1, REDD2 and REDD3 are run ten times, each time with a change of seed and the results of each run are used to obtain mean values, variance, standard deviation and 95% confidence intervals. The performance measures are calculated based on data collected only after the system has reached a steady state. After extensive experimentation, the results show that the proposed REDD, REDD1, REDD2 and REDD3 algorithms and some of the proposed analytical models such as DRED-Alpha, RED and GRED models offer somewhat better results of mean queue length and average queueing delay than these achieved by RED and its variants when the values of packet arrival probability are greater than the value of packet departure probability, i.e. in a congestion situation. This suggests that when traffic is largely of a non bursty nature, instantaneous queue length might be a better congestion measure to use rather than the average queue length as in the more traditional models.

Book The Mathematics of Internet Congestion Control

Download or read book The Mathematics of Internet Congestion Control written by Rayadurgam Srikant and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2004 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: * Recommended by T.Basar, SC series ed. * This text addresses a new, active area of research and fills a gap in the literature. * Bridges mathematics, engineering, and computer science; considers stochastic and optimization aspects of congestion control in Internet data transfers. * Useful as a supplementary text & reference for grad students with some background in control theory; also suitable for researchers.

Book Network Routing

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  • Publisher : Elsevier
  • Release : 2010-07-19
  • ISBN : 0080474977
  • Pages : 958 pages

Download or read book Network Routing written by and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2010-07-19 with total page 958 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Network routing can be broadly categorized into Internet routing, PSTN routing, and telecommunication transport network routing. This book systematically considers these routing paradigms, as well as their interoperability. The authors discuss how algorithms, protocols, analysis, and operational deployment impact these approaches. A unique feature of the book is consideration of both macro-state and micro-state in routing; that is, how routing is accomplished at the level of networks and how routers or switches are designed to enable efficient routing. In reading this book, one will learn about 1) the evolution of network routing, 2) the role of IP and E.164 addressing in routing, 3) the impact on router and switching architectures and their design, 4) deployment of network routing protocols, 5) the role of traffic engineering in routing, and 6) lessons learned from implementation and operational experience. This book explores the strengths and weaknesses that should be considered during deployment of future routing schemes as well as actual implementation of these schemes. It allows the reader to understand how different routing strategies work and are employed and the connection between them. This is accomplished in part by the authors' use of numerous real-world examples to bring the material alive. Bridges the gap between theory and practice in network routing, including the fine points of implementation and operational experience Routing in a multitude of technologies discussed in practical detail, including, IP/MPLS, PSTN, and optical networking Routing protocols such as OSPF, IS-IS, BGP presented in detail A detailed coverage of various router and switch architectures A comprehensive discussion about algorithms on IP-lookup and packet classification Accessible to a wide audience due to its vendor-neutral approach

Book A Parallel Virtual Queue Structure for Active Queue Management

Download or read book A Parallel Virtual Queue Structure for Active Queue Management written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Adaptive RED proposed by Feng et al. is shown to have small packet delay and queue length variation for long-life TCP traffic such as FTP connection with a large file size. However, a great portion of Internet traffic is shortlife web and UDP traffic. Most web traffic has a small file size and its TCP session is mainly operated in the slow start phase with a small congestion window size. Since the file size is small, dropping short-life TCP (and UDP) packets is not very effective in alleviating congestion level at a bottleneck router. From the viewpoint of TCP, one or several packet losses in its slow start phase lead to extra delay for retransmission and even cause TCP timeout. This delay severely degrades the performance of delivering short messages such as web pages and web browsers experience a long waiting time even with a high speed network. We first show that the Adaptive RED is vulnerable to these shortlife TCP traffic and propose a virtual parallel queue structure as a new active queue management scheme (AQM). The idea is to separate the long-life and short-life (including UDP) traffic into two different virtual queues. The first queue is to run the droptail policy and work for the short-life TCP and UDP packets. In order to have a small mean delay, the service rate of this drop-tail queue is dynamically determined by its virtual queue length. The remaining long-life traffic is directed to an Adaptive RED virtual queue. Even the available bandwidth is shared with the drop-tail queue, the simulation results show that the queue length variation of the RED queue is still located in a desired region. Note that both virtual queues share the same physical buffer memory. Those packets in the drop-tail queue will not be dropped unless the shared buffer is overflowed. This parallel virtual queue structure not only keeps the benefits of RED such as high utilization and small delay, but also greatly reduces the packet loss rate at the router.

Book Computational Science   ICCS 2004

Download or read book Computational Science ICCS 2004 written by Marian Bubak and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2004-06-01 with total page 779 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The International Conference on Computational Science (ICCS 2004) held in Krak ́ ow, Poland, June 6–9, 2004, was a follow-up to the highly successful ICCS 2003 held at two locations, in Melbourne, Australia and St. Petersburg, Russia; ICCS 2002 in Amsterdam, The Netherlands; and ICCS 2001 in San Francisco, USA. As computational science is still evolving in its quest for subjects of inves- gation and e?cient methods, ICCS 2004 was devised as a forum for scientists from mathematics and computer science, as the basic computing disciplines and application areas, interested in advanced computational methods for physics, chemistry, life sciences, engineering, arts and humanities, as well as computer system vendors and software developers. The main objective of this conference was to discuss problems and solutions in all areas, to identify new issues, to shape future directions of research, and to help users apply various advanced computational techniques. The event harvested recent developments in com- tationalgridsandnextgenerationcomputingsystems,tools,advancednumerical methods, data-driven systems, and novel application ?elds, such as complex - stems, ?nance, econo-physics and population evolution.