Understanding the performance of TCP pacing

Many researchers have observed that TCP's congestion control mechanisms can lead to bursty traffic flows on modern high-speed networks, with a negative impact on overall network efficiency. A proposed solution to this problem is to evenly space, or "pace", data sent into the network over an entire round-trip time, so that data is not sent in a burst. In this paper, we quantitatively evaluate this approach. Pacing offers better fairness,...