A congestion control algorithm for the deep space Internet

Issue title: Satellite Network Protocols

Article type: Research Article

Authors: Grieco, Luigi A. | Mascolo, Saverio

Affiliations: Dipartimento di Elettrotecnica ed Elettronica, Politecnico di Bari, Via Orabona, 4, 70125 Bari, Italy E-mail: {a.grieco,mascolo}@poliba.it

Abstract: This paper proposes a new rate based congestion control algorithm that significantly improves the utilization of planetary links with respect to classic TCP congestion control. Ns-2 simulation results have shown that the proposed algorithm provides significant goodput improvements with respect to New Reno, Reno Sack, Reno Fack, Vegas, and Westwood+ TCP in the presence of RTTs larger than 1 s and smaller than 2000 s and packet loss probability ranging from 0.0001 to 0.01.

Keywords: TCP, congestion control, Planetary Internet

Journal: Space Communications, vol. 20, no. 3-4, pp. 155-160, 2006