Buffer sizing theory for bursty TCP flows
Damon Wischik.
International Zurich Seminar on Communications (IZS),
February 2006.
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Abstract.
In a router serving many TCP flows, queues will
build up from time to time. The manner in which queues build
up depends on the buffer space available and on the burstiness of
the TCP traffic. Conversely, the traffic generated by a TCP flow
depends on the congestion it sees at queues along its route. In
order to decide how big buffers should be, we need to understand
the interaction between these effects.
This paper reviews the buffer-sizing theory in [1] and extends
it to cope with bursty TCP traffic. This enables us to explain an
observation about TCP pacing made in [2].