Araujo, JT;
Landa, R;
Clegg, RG;
Pavlou, G;
Fukuda, K;
(2014)
A longitudinal analysis of Internet rate limitations.
In: Bianchi, G and Fang, Y and Shen, X, (eds.)
Proceedings of IEEE INFOCOM 2014: 33rd IEEE Conference on Computer Communications [Proceedings].
(pp. pp. 1438-1446).
IEEE: Toronto, ON, Canada.
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Abstract
TCP remains the dominant transport protocol for Internet traffic, but the preponderance of its congestion control mechanisms in determining flow throughput is often disputed. This paper analyzes the extent to which network, host and application settings define flow throughput over time and across autonomous systems. Drawing from a longitudinal study spanning five years of passive traces collected from a single transit link, our results show that continuing OS upgrades have reduced the influence of host limitations owing both to windowscale deployment, which by 2011 covered 80% of inbound traffic, and increased socket buffer sizes. On the other hand, we show that for this data set, approximately half of all inbound traffic remains throttled by constraints beyond network capacity, challenging the traditional model of congestion control in TCP traffic as governed primarily by loss and delay.
| Type: | Proceedings paper |
|---|---|
| Title: | A longitudinal analysis of Internet rate limitations |
| Event: | IEEE INFOCOM 2014: 33rd IEEE Conference on Computer Communications: 27 April - 2 May 2014, Toronto, Canada |
| Location: | Toronto, CANADA |
| Dates: | 27 April 2014 - 02 May 2014 |
| ISBN-13: | 9781479933600 |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1109/INFOCOM.2014.6848078 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1109/INFOCOM.2014.6848078 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
| Keywords: | Throughput, Receivers, Internet, Bandwidth, Conferences, Computers, Sockets, Internet, telecommunication congestion control, telecommunication links, telecommunication traffic, transport protocols, Internet rate limitations, TCP, transport protocol, Internet traffic, congestion control mechanisms, single transit link, OS, windowscale deployment, inbound traffic, socket buffer size, network capacity |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science > Dept of Electronic and Electrical Eng |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1502966 |
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