Abstract
Popular Internet applications such as web browsing, and web video download use HTTP protocol as application over the standard Transport Control Protocol (TCP). Traditional TCP behavior is unsuitable for this style of application because their transmission rate and traffic pattern are different from conventional bulk transfer applications. Previous works have analyzed the interaction of these applications with the congestion control algorithms in TCP and the proposed Congestion Window Validation (CWV) as a solution. However, this method was incomplete and has been shown to present drawbacks. This paper focuses on the ‘newCWV’ which was designed to address these drawbacks. NewCWV provides a practical mechanism to estimate the available path capacity and suggests a more appropriate congestion control behavior. This paper describes how this algorithm was implemented in the Linux TCP/IP stack and tested by experiments, where results indicate that, with newCWV, the browsing can get 50% faster in an uncongested network.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 1-17 |
| Number of pages | 17 |
| Journal | International Journal of Computer Networks and Communications |
| Volume | 15 |
| Issue number | 4 |
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| Publication status | Published - Jul 2023 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:The author acknowledges the Electronics Research Group of the University of Aberdeen, UK, for all the support in conducting these experiments. This research was a part of the University of Aberdeen, dot. rural project. (EP/G066051/1).
Keywords
- Bursty TCP traffic
- Congestion Control
- HTTP
- Network Protocols
- newCWV
- TCP