作者: Chadi Barakat , Konstantin Avrachenkov , Eitan Altman
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摘要: ImpactofburstylossesonTCPp erformanceEitanAltman,KonstantinAvrachenkov,ChadiBarakatINRIA,2004routedesLucioles,06902SophiaAntipolis,FanceEmail:{altman,kavratch,cbarakat}@sophia.inria.frAbstractInthispap erweanalyzethep erformanceofaTCP-likocontrolmechanisminalossyenvironment.Thetransmissionrateinthecontrolschemethatweconsiderhasalineargrowthrate;wheneverlosso ccurs,thetransmissionrateishalved.Thisapproximatesthep erformanceofseveralversionsTCPthatdividetheircongestionwindowbytowhenalossisdetected.Weprop osemathematicalmo delthatallowstoaccountforburstinessinthelosspro cess.Wecomputeexp ectedtransmissionrateanditsmomentsatsomep otentiallossinstants,provideusefulimplicitandexplicitexpressionsfortheLaplaceStieltjisTransform.Thisallowsustocomputeexplicitlythetimeaverageoftransmissionrateaswellasitsmoments.Weshowthatthetimeaverageoftransmissionrateisindeedsensitivetothedistributionoflosses,andnotjustaveragelossrate:forgivenaveragelossrate,weshothatthetimeoftransmissionrateincraseswiththeburstinessoflosses.1Intro ductionFlowcontrolmechanismsintheInternet,particularlythoseofTransmis-sionControlProto col(TCP)[19,24],usethelossofpacketsasanindicationofnetworkcongestion.Ingeneral,thetransmissionratecontrolledoislinearlyincreaseduntilalosso ccurs.Thenetworksupp osedheretob econgestedandthetransmissionrateismultiplicativelydecreasedinordertoalleviatethiscongestion.InTCPasanexample,thetransmissionrateiscon-trolledviaacongestionwindowwhichisincreasedinabsenceoflossesanddecreasedup onlossdetection[24].Anothersetofowcontrolmechanismsrecentlyintro ducedtomultimediaapplicationsconsistmeasuringthelossrateofpacketsandincontrollingthetransmissionawytob efriendlywithTCPtransfers[15,16].Explicitexpressionsforthroughputagivenlossrate(e.g.[23])areusedforthispurp ose.Ago o dunderstandingoftheimpactalosspro cessonp erformanceaowcontrolmechanismisrequiredforgo dnetorkandproto coltuning.PreprintsubmittedtoElsevier30May2000