TCP acceleration

Network packet

TCP Friendly Rate Control

Algorithm

World Wide Web

Transmission Control Protocol

Active queue management

Network congestion

Embedded system

The Internet

Computer science

TCP Westwood plus

Packet loss

Computer network

HSTCP

TCP global synchronization

Bottleneck

TCP tuning

CUBIC TCP

Queuing delay

Queueing theory

IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials

Congestion control (CC) has a significant influence on the performance of transmission control protocol (TCP) connections. Over the last three decades, many researchers have extensively studied and proposed a multitude of enhancements to standard TCP CC. However, this topic still inspires both academic and industrial research communities due to the change in Internet application requirements and the evolution of Internet technologies. The standard TCP CC infers network congestion based on packet loss events which leads to long queuing delay when bottleneck buffer size is large. A promising solution to this problem is to use the delay signal (RTT or one-way delay measurements) to infer congestion earlier and react to the congestion before the queuing delay reaches a high value. In this survey paper, we describe the delay signal and the algorithms that completely or partially utilize this type of signal. Additionally, we illustrate standard CC and modern active queue management (AQM) principles and discus the interaction between AQM and the delay signal.

A Survey of Delay-Based and Hybrid TCP Congestion Control Algorithms