Interaction of High Speed TCPs with Recent AQMs through Experimental Evaluation

Congestion control approaches, source based approach and router based approach have their own limitations. In source based approach, it is difficult to get correct location of congestion and without proper admission control; we cannot effectively manage the congestion problem. Thus both the approaches have to work in coordination for effective congestion control. In this context, an interaction study plays an important role to verify how a TCP implemented at source end works with Active Queue Management at router end. In this paper, we analyzed the performance of different high speed TCP variants at the source end with some recent AQM approaches: CoDel and sfqCoDel. The main objective of this work is to obtain the interaction patterns of different high speed TCP variants like: HTCP, Compound, HSTCP, Scalable and Cubic with recently proposed AQMs: CoDel and sfqCoDel. Simulation results show that that if we want to achieve a better throughput, minimum delay and improved fairness simultaneously, Cubic-sfqCoDel may be a good choice of TCP-AQM combinations for high speed networks.