Congestion Control for Background Data Transfers With Minimal Delay Impact

• Published in: IEEE/ACM transactions on networking Vol. 25; no. 5; pp. 2743 - 2758
• Main Authors: Courcoubetis, Costas A., Dimakis, Antonis, Kanakakis, Michalis
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York IEEE 01.10.2017; The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
• Subjects: Access control; Background data; Bandwidth; bandwidth sharing; Computer simulation; congestion control; Control algorithms; Control theory; Data transfer; Delay; delay-sensitive flows; Delays; Downloading; File servers; IEEE transactions; Network topologies; Packet switched networks; Parameter identification; Protocol (computers); Protocols; TCP (protocol); TCP-IP; Throughput; Traffic congestion; Traffic control

Congestion control protocols for background data are commonly conceived and designed to emulate low priority traffic, which yields to transmission control protocol (TCP) flows. In the presence of even a few very long TCP flows, this behavior can cause bandwidth starvation, and hence, the accumulatio...