An Integrated Congestion Management Architecture for Internet Hosts

11/23/99


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An Integrated Congestion Management Architecture for Internet Hosts

Two Questions

Problem #1: The Web!

Problem #2: Application Heterogeneity

Congestion Management Challenges

“Solution” #1: Persistent Connections

“Solution” #2: Web Accelerators

“Solution” #3: Integrated TCP Sessions

What is the World Heading Toward?

What We Really Need…

Congestion Manager Properties

CM Features

CM Algorithms

CM’s Rate-based Control is TCP-friendly

Receiver Feedback

Why Feedback?

Handling Infrequent Feedback

Better than Best-effort Networks

CM Scheduler

The CM API

Put the application in control

Accommodate traffic heterogeneity

Accommodate application heterogeneity

Learn from the application

Application 1: Web/TCP

CM Web Performance

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Conclusions

Author: Hari Balakrishnan

Email: hari@lcs.mit.edu

Home Page: http://wind.lcs.mit.edu/

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