On improving the fairness of TCP congestion avoidance

Abstract
We report on a simulation-based study ofthe efficacy of modified congestion avoidance algorithmson TCP fairness. We first examined whether a changeto that algorithm, as proposed by Floyd, that resultsin a "Constant-Rate" additive increase policy can correctthe bias against connections with long round triptimes (RTTs). Our first main result is that although theConstant-Rate policy can improve fairness dramatically,we found it difficult to successfully implement such apolicy in a...

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