Multipath congestion control algorithm based on link capacity

Abstract

Factors such as link differences and TCP friendliness constraints lead to the problem of unfair bandwidth allocation when the TCP congestion control mechanism was applied directly to multi-path transmission.To address the problem,it was proposed that a multipath congestion control algorithm was based on link capacity.The proposed algorithm which was based on the concept of feedback regulation achieved multipath joint congestion control by establishing the M/M/1 cache queue model to adjust the throughput rate of senders.Experimental results show the proposed algorithm can improve the multipath transmission bandwidth utilization and the multipath congestion control algorithm responsiveness,and ensure the fairness of multipath transmission.

Keywords

• multipath TCP;congestion control;fairness;bandwidth utilization efficiency;feedback regulation