[Tmrg] Proposal to increase TCP initial CWND

Michael.Scharf at alcatel-lucent.com (SCHARF, Michael) Sun, 18 July 2010 10:16 UTC

From: "Michael.Scharf at alcatel-lucent.com"
Date: Sun, 18 Jul 2010 12:16:37 +0200
Subject: [Tmrg] Proposal to increase TCP initial CWND
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> The basic TMRG-related issue was:  If a data centre changes a 
> TCP parameter for *its* flows, how can it estimate the 
> degradation caused to *other* flows sharing resources with 
> these flows?  Google is awash with data, but it all shares 
> the bias of coming from their data centres.  What models are 
> appropriate to infer the impact on the unmeasured flows?

I am not sure whether there is a simple way how to estimate the impact
on other flows without somehow measuring them (e. g., on the
client-side).

In the paper http://www.springerlink.com/content/6078217660g68170/, as
well as in follow-up work that is still under submission, I played with
simulations in which a certain share of flows use a fast startup
schemes, and I studied the impact on the other flows (e. g., a potential
slow-down). The simulation scenario implemented a subset of
draft-irtf-tmrg-tests-02.

However, the results of such studies depend a lot on the characteristics
of a potential common bottleneck and its load. (If someone is interested
in this work, please contact me privately.)

Michael