Modeling the interdependency of low-priority congestion control and active queue management

Yixi Gong (1, 2, 3) , D. Rossi (1, 2, 3) , E. Leonardi (4)

1 LINCS - Laboratory of Information, Network and Communication Sciences
2 RMS - Réseaux, Mobilité et Services
3 INFRES - Département Informatique et Réseaux
4 Polito - Politecnico di Torino = Polytechnic of Turin

Recently, a negative interplay has been shown to arise when scheduling/AQM techniques and low-priority congestion control protocols are used together: namely, AQM resets the relative level of priority among congestion control protocols. This work explores this issue by (i) studying a fluid model that describes system dynamics of heterogeneous congestion control protocols competing on a bottleneck link governed by AQM and (ii) proposing a system level solution able to reinstate priorities among protocols.

Domains: Networking and Internet Architecture [cs.NI]

Yixi Gong, D. Rossi, E. Leonardi. Modeling the interdependency of low-priority congestion control and active queue management. 25th International Teletraffic Congress (ITC25), Sep 2013, Shanghai, China. ⟨hal-00828127⟩