Congestion Control With Multipacket Feedback

Abstract

Many congestion control protocols use explicit feedback from the network to achieve high performance. Most of these either require more bits for feedback than are available in the IP header or incur performance limitations due to inaccurate congestion feedback. There has been recent interest in protocols that obtain high-resolution estimates of congestion by combining the explicit congestion notification (ECN) marks of multiple packets, and using this to guide multiplicative increase, additive increase, multiplicative decrease (MI-AI-MD) window adaptation. This paper studies the potential of such approaches, both analytically and by simulation. The evaluation focuses on a new protocol called..