An end-system architecture for unified congestion management

In this position paper we motivate and describe the Congestion Manager (CM), a novel end-system architecture, which enables application adaptation to network congestion. The CM maintains congestion and path related information and allows flows to learn from each other and share information. It also exports an API to enable applications to learn about network status and regulate data transmission. As a result, applications are freed from having to detect network congestion and probe for spare bandwidth. We describe how TCP can be implemented using the CM and conclude that the CM provides an excellent framework for building adaptive Internet applications.

[1]  Raj Jain,et al.  Analysis of the Increase and Decrease Algorithms for Congestion Avoidance in Computer Networks , 1989, Comput. Networks.

[2]  Deborah Estrin,et al.  RAP: An end-to-end rate-based congestion control mechanism for realtime streams in the Internet , 1999, IEEE INFOCOM '99. Conference on Computer Communications. Proceedings. Eighteenth Annual Joint Conference of the IEEE Computer and Communications Societies. The Future is Now (Cat. No.99CH36320).

[3]  Van Jacobson,et al.  Congestion avoidance and control , 1988, SIGCOMM '88.

[4]  Steven McCanne,et al.  Receiver-driven layered multicast , 1996, SIGCOMM '96.

[5]  W. Richard Stevens,et al.  TCP Slow Start, Congestion Avoidance, Fast Retransmit, and Fast Recovery Algorithms , 1997, RFC.

[6]  W. Richard Stevens.  Tcp/ip illustrated- volume 1 , 1994 .

[7]  Srinivasan Keshav,et al.  Rate controlled servers for very high-speed networks , 1990, [Proceedings] GLOBECOM '90: IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference and Exhibition.

[8]  Srinivasan Seshan,et al.  An integrated congestion management architecture for Internet hosts , 1999, SIGCOMM '99.

[9]  Jerome H. Saltzer,et al.  End-to-end arguments in system design , 1984, TOCS.

[10]  Dinesh C. Verma,et al.  A Scheme for Real-Time Channel Establishment in Wide-Area Networks , 1990, IEEE J. Sel. Areas Commun..

[11]  Abhay Parekh,et al.  A generalized processor sharing approach to flow control in integrated services networks-the single node case , 1992, [Proceedings] IEEE INFOCOM '92: The Conference on Computer Communications.

[12]  Andrew H. Mutz,et al.  Transparent Content Negotiation in HTTP , 1998, RFC.

[13]  Abhay Parekh,et al.  A generalized processor sharing approach to flow control in integrated services networks: the single-node case , 1993, TNET.

[14]  David Clark,et al.  Supporting Real-Time Applications in an Integrated Services Packet Network: Architecture and Mechanism , 1992, SIGCOMM.

[15]  Joseph D. Touch,et al.  TCP Control Block Interdependence , 1997, RFC.

[16]  David D. Clark,et al.  Architectural considerations for a new generation of protocols , 1990, SIGCOMM '90.

[17]  Scott Shenker,et al.  Analysis and simulation of a fair queueing algorithm , 1989, SIGCOMM '89.

[18]  Randy H. Katz,et al.  Addressing the challenges of web data transport , 1998 .

[19]  Srinivasan Seshan,et al.  TCP behavior of a busy Internet server: analysis and improvements , 1997, Proceedings. IEEE INFOCOM '98, the Conference on Computer Communications. Seventeenth Annual Joint Conference of the IEEE Computer and Communications Societies. Gateway to the 21st Century (Cat. No.98.

[20]  D. Estrin,et al.  RSVP: a new resource reservation protocol , 1993, IEEE Communications Magazine.

[21]  Rajarshi Gupta,et al.  WebTP: A User-Centric Receiver-Driven Web Transport Protocol , 1998 .