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11/2/1999 On Individual and Aggregate TCP Performance On Individual and Aggregate TCP Performance Lili Qiu Yin Zhang Srinivasan Keshav Cornell University 7th International Conference on Network ProtocolsToronto, Canada, October 31 - November 3, 1999 Talk Outline Introduction Motivation Brief Overview of TCP-Reno Related Work Aggregate TCP performance Summary and future work Introduction Understanding TCP performance is critical Our knowledge is still insufficient TCP performance under many competing flows is not sufficiently explored Unclear about the impact of network topology Goal Investigate both individual and aggregate TCP behavior under many competing connections Investigate the impact of network topology Approach Extensive simulation Overview of TCP-Reno Slow start Congestion avoidance Loss recovery Time out Fast retransmission Related Work TCP analytical model [Padhye et al 98] Models the throughput of an individual TCP conn Our simulation evaluation shows the model is reasonably accurate Doesn’t consider aggregate performance TCP Behavior with many TCP Flows [Morris 97] TCP-Taheo under RED dropping policy Only studies the impact of different # conns Doesn’t consider other network parameters Aggregate TCP Performance Motivation Useful for network provisioning Goal Aggregate TCP behavior for a large number of connections Impact of network topology Network Model Network parameters Bandwidth Prop delay Buffer size Total number of connections TCP-Reno Dropping tail Notation = bottleneck bandwidth * propagation delay = + bottleneck buffer Simulation Methodology Three sets of simulations Same RTT With random processing time Two RTT’s Overview of Our Results Overview of Our Results (Cont’d) Simulation 1: With Same RTT TCP exhibits wide range of behaviors depending on Case 1: (Large Pipe) Case 2: (Small Pipe) Case 3: (Medium Pipe)