On the Fairness of DCTCP and CUBIC in Cloud Data Center Networks

Data center networks (DCNs) hold a key role in information industry as the infrastructure for hosting cloud data services and related applications. The increasing number of customers using cloud services sets, however, new challenges for the efficient management of the DCN traffic handled by the transport protocols. TCP is adapted as the main transport control protocol in DCNs, but the standard congestion control algorithm it employs has been...