Lightweight Fairness Solutions for XCP and TCP Cohabitation

XCP is a promising router-assisted protocol due to its high performance and intra-protocol fairness in fully XCP networks. However, XCP is not inter-operable with current E2E protocols resulting in a poor performance of XCP flows when the resources are shared with TCP-like flows. In this paper, we propose a lightweight fairness solution, that can benefit the cohabitation between XCP and TCP in large bandwidth x delay product networks and long-life flows scenarios, as it is shown in our simulation results.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2008
• Where: NETWORKING
• Authors: Dino M. López-Pacheco, Laurent Lefèvre, CongDuc Pham
• Keywords: Computer Networks, Long-life Flows Scenarios, NETWORKING 2008, Promising Router-assisted Protocol, XCP Networks