[tcpm] Adding Acknowledgement Congestion Control to TCP

All -

We have just submitted an internet-draft on "Adding Acknowledgement
Congestion Control to TCP", available from
"http://www.icir.org/floyd/papers/draft-floyd-tcpm-ackcc-00.txt".

This is very much a preliminary investigation, at this stage,
and any feedback would be appreciated.

Abstract:

    This document adds an optional congestion control mechanism for
    acknowledgement traffic (ACKs) to TCP.  The document specifies an
    end-to-end acknowledgement congestion control mechanism for TCP that
    uses participation from both TCP hosts, the TCP data sender and the
    TCP data receiver.  The TCP data sender detects lost and ECN-marked
    ACK packets, and tells the TCP data receiver the ACK Ratio R to use
    to respond to the congestion on the reverse path from the data
    receiver to the data sender.  The TCP data receiver sends roughly one
    ACK packet for every R data packets received.  This mechanism is
    based on the acknowledgement congestion control in DCCP's CCID 2
    [RFC4340], [RFC4341].  This acknowledgement congestion control
    mechanism is being proposed as an experimental mechanism for TCP for
    evaluation by the network community.

Many thanks,
Sally, David, Andres, and Janardhan
http://www.icir.org/floyd/

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