Prateesh Goyal, Mohammad Alizadeh, Hari Balakrishnan
Sixteenth ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks (HotNets), Palo Alto, CA, November 2017
We propose Accel-Brake Control (ABC), a protocol that
integrates a simple and deployable signaling scheme at cellular
base stations with an endpoint mechanism to respond to these
signals. The key idea is for the base station to enable each
sender to achieve a computed target rate by marking each
packet with an “accelerate” or “brake” notification, which
causes the sender to either slightly increase or slightly reduce
its congestion window. ABC is designed to rapidly acquire
any capacity that opens up, a common occurrence in cellular
networks, while responding promptly to congestion. It is also
incrementally deployable using existing ECN infrastructure
and can co-exist with legacy ECN routers. Preliminary
results obtained over cellular network traces show that ABC
outperforms prior approaches significantly.
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Bibtex Entry:
@inproceedings{goyal2017rethinking, author = "Prateesh Goyal and Mohammad Alizadeh and Hari Balakrishnan", title = "{Rethinking Congestion Control for Cellular Networks}", booktitle = {Sixteenth ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks (HotNets)}, year = {2017}, month = {November}, address = {Palo Alto, CA} }