| Authors | K. De Schepper, B. Briscoe, O. Bondarenko and I. Tsang |
| Title | DualQ Coupled AQM for Low Latency, Low Loss and Scalable Throughput |
| Afilliation | Communication Systems |
| Project(s) | RITE: Reducing Internet Transport Latency, TimeIn: Traffic behaviour of interactive time-dependent thin streams on the modern Internet |
| Status | Submitted |
| Publication Type | Technical reports |
| Year of Publication | 2016 |
| Number | draft-briscoe-tsvwg-aqm-dualq-coupled-00 |
| Date Published | 10/2016 |
| Publisher | Internet Engineering Task Force |
| Keywords | Algorithms, Analysis, AQM, Congestion Avoidance, congestion control, Data Communication, Design, Evaluation, Internet, latency, networks, Performance, QoS, Scaling, tcp |
| Abstract | Data Centre TCP (DCTCP) was designed to provide predictably low queuing latency, near-zero loss, and throughput scalability using explicit congestion notification (ECN) and an extremely simple marking behaviour on switches. However, DCTCP does not co-exist with existing TCP traffic---throughput starves. So, until now, DCTCP could only be deployed where a clean-slate environment could be arranged, such as in private data centres. This specification defines `DualQ Coupled Active Queue Management (AQM)' to allow scalable congestion controls like DCTCP to safely co-exist with classic Internet traffic. The Coupled AQM ensures that a flow runs at about the same rate whether it uses DCTCP or TCP Reno/Cubic, but without inspecting transport layer flow identifiers. When tested in a residential broadband setting, DCTCP achieved sub-millisecond average queuing delay and zero congestion loss under a wide range of mixes of DCTCP and `Classic' broadband Internet traffic, without compromising the performance of the Classic traffic. The solution also reduces network complexity and eliminates network configuration. |
| Notes | (Work in Progress) |
| URL | http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-briscoe-tsvwg-aqm-dualq-coupled |
| Citation Key | 23797 |