CUBIC: a new TCP-friendly high-speed TCP variant

CUBIC is a congestion control protocol for TCP (transmission control protocol) and the current default TCP algorithm in Linux. The protocol modifies the linear window growth function of existing TCP standards to be a cubic function in order to improve the scalability of TCP over fast and long distance networks. It also achieves more equitable bandwidth allocations among flows with different RTTs (round trip times) by making the window growth to be independent of RTT

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2008
• Where: SIGOPS
• Authors: Sangtae Ha, Injong Rhee, Lisong Xu
• Keywords: Control Protocol, Default Tcp Algorithm, SIGOPS 2008, Window