Performance enhancement of XCP for high bandwidth-delay product networks

Abstract

It has been demonstrated that as the per-flow product of bandwidth delay increases, TCP becomes inefficient and unstable, regardless of the queuing discipline. By decoupling utilization control from fairness control, the eXplicit Control Protocol (XCP) outperforms TCP in both conventional and high bandwidth-delay environments. In this article,. we present an efficient flow control scheme based on XCP for high bandwidth-delay product networks. It can shorten the response time and improve the performance of XCP. Simulation results show the effectiveness of our proposed scheme in several performance aspects. Moreover, its implementation is simple enough to fulfill the required criteria of high bandwidth-delay product networks.