Abstract:

The main objectives of a congestion control algorithm are
high bandwidth utilization, fairness and responsiveness in changing
environment. However, these objectives are contradicting 
in particular situations since the algorithm has to constantly 
probe available bandwidth, which may affect its stability. This 
paper proposes a novel congestion control algorithm that achieves 
high bandwidth utilization providing fairness among competing 
connections and, on the other hand, is sufficiently responsive 
to changes of available bandwidth. The main idea of the algorithm is to
use {\em adaptive} setting for the additive increase multiplicative
decrease (AIMD) congestion control scheme, 
where parameters may change dynamically, with respect to the 
current network conditions.

This is a joint work with Yishay Mansour.