@inproceedings {23555,
	title = {Eclipse: A New Dynamic Delay-based Congestion Control Algorithm for Background Traffic},
	journal = {18th International Conference on Network-Based Information Systems (NBiS)},
	year = {2015},
	month = {09/2015},
	abstract = {Initially, the Internet transport protocol TCP has been designed to provide a "best effort" service: it is meant to share the network resources with other users and applications. However, there is nowadays also a growing demand for transmitting big amounts of data in the background, namely background transport that uses spare capacity, but with minimal effect on other traffic. For instance, systems can proactively download content that the user/system would need in the future (e.g. update packages, video files, etc.). Efforts have therefore been made in the IETF for the sake of such a service with Low Extra Delay Background Traffic (LEDBAT) congestion control. While LEDBAT works in some cases, there are however known situations where it causes serious performance problems, particularly in combination with the ubiquitous bufferbloat for example in current broadband networks.

In this paper, we analyse the issues of LEDBAT and propose a new approach for background traffic. Inspired by an astronomical event, we have named this approach Eclipse. Unlike LEDBAT, Eclipse can dynamically adapt to the network characteristics not only to minimise the additional network delay but also to maximise the utilisation of spare network capacity. We will show the usefulness of Eclipse by simulations.},
	keywords = {Background Traffic, congestion control, Delay-based Congestion Control, Less-than-Best-Effort Service},
	author = {Adhari, Hakim},
	editor = {Dreibholz, Thomas}
}
@misc {Simula.simula.2962,
	title = {Does the End-User Really Have Benefits From Using Multipath Transport?},
	howpublished = {Proceedings of the 2nd International NorNet Users Workshop (NNUW-2)},
	year = {2014},
	month = {August},
	author = {Adhari, Hakim}
}
@inproceedings {Simula.simula.2512,
	title = {LEDBAT-MP - on the Application of Lower-Than-Best-Effort for Concurrent Multipath Transfer},
	journal = {Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Protocols and Applications with Multi-Homing Support (PAMS)},
	year = {2014},
	month = {May},
	publisher = {IEEE},
	type = {Workshop},
	address = {Victoria, British Columbia/Canada},
	abstract = {The Internet is based on best effort communication, i.e. it tries to deliver packets but does not provide any guarantees. A transport protocol can make use of this best effort service to provide a suitable service to its applications. Also, its congestion control is responsible for a fair distribution of the resources within the Internet. However, background data transfer applications (like file sharing or update fetching) do not require \&quot;best effort\&quot;; they in fact could use a \&quot;lower-than-best-effort\&quot; service to leave resources to more important applications if needed. For this purpose, the Low Extra Delay Background Transport (LEDBAT) algorithm has been standardized by the IETF. Nowadays, multi-homing is becoming increasingly common in modern networks and several approaches to exploit this feature (e.g. CMT-SCTP, MPTCP) have evolved that are able to combine resources of multiple paths. For background traffic oriented algorithms like LEDBAT, this feature could be of great use, too, i.e. by increasing the overall bandwidth while shifting the transmission away from paths which are used by other flows. This could be particularly useful for non-critical bulk transfers in data centers. In this paper, we introduce our approach LEDBAT for Multi-Path - denoted as LEDBAT-MP - and analyse its performance by simulations. With this paper, we want to highlight some generic design questions and start a discussion on how a solid universal background multi-path congestion control strategy should behave.},
	keywords = {Workshop},
	author = {Adhari, Hakim and Dreibholz, Thomas and Werner, Sebastian and Rathgeb, Erwin},
	editor = {IEEE, }
}
