Comparative Study on the Performance of Different TCP Flavors

Indeed the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) is the main transport layer protocol for the end-to-end control that helps the creation of information communication. Most of today`s Internet applications depend on the Performance TCP simply because the most frequently used networks by today are the...

Full description

Saved in:

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Jama Omar Abdi, Abdulaziz
Format:	Thesis
Language:	eng eng
Published:	2009
Subjects:	QA76 Computer software
Online Access:	https://etd.uum.edu.my/1599/1/ABDULAZIZ_JAMA_OMAR_ABDI.pdf https://etd.uum.edu.my/1599/2/1.ABDULAZIZ_JAMA_OMAR_ABDI.pdf
Tags:	Add Tag No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!

id	my-uum-etd.1599
record_format	uketd_dc
institution	Universiti Utara Malaysia
collection	UUM ETD
language	eng eng
topic	QA76 Computer software
spellingShingle	QA76 Computer software Jama Omar Abdi, Abdulaziz Comparative Study on the Performance of Different TCP Flavors
description	Indeed the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) is the main transport layer protocol for the end-to-end control that helps the creation of information communication. Most of today`s Internet applications depend on the Performance TCP simply because the most frequently used networks by today are the TCP/IP networks. TCP was originally created to handle the problem of network congestion collapse. In this research project, we had investigated the performance of four TCP variants namely Reno, Vegas, NewReno and SACK based on two performance measures: The Bandwidth (effective throughput) and fairness. The network topology is simple wired network and it will be configured into different scenarios to maximize the chances of achieving the desired goal. Simulation methodology is used in this study. The simulation tool or software that was used as an investigation environment is the popular NS-2 simulator. The objective was to investigate and find out the performance of TCP variants according to the bandwidth and fairness in a simple dumbbell wired network, in a hope to observe a better performance.However, the results are daunting, TCP Reno is the most aggressive (least fair one), and highest amount of throughput. In the case of TCP NewReno it follows Reno’s steps by becoming the second most aggressive (second least fair), and second highest throughput.SACK (Sack1) is fair to Reno and NewReno, but when it is competing with Vegas, it shows that it is very unfair. Finally Vegas shows the highest degree of fairness (least aggressive) and as well Vegas produces the lowest amount throughput.
format	Thesis
qualification_name	masters
qualification_level	Master's degree
author	Jama Omar Abdi, Abdulaziz
author_facet	Jama Omar Abdi, Abdulaziz
author_sort	Jama Omar Abdi, Abdulaziz
title	Comparative Study on the Performance of Different TCP Flavors
title_short	Comparative Study on the Performance of Different TCP Flavors
title_full	Comparative Study on the Performance of Different TCP Flavors
title_fullStr	Comparative Study on the Performance of Different TCP Flavors
title_full_unstemmed	Comparative Study on the Performance of Different TCP Flavors
title_sort	comparative study on the performance of different tcp flavors
granting_institution	Universiti Utara Malaysia
granting_department	College of Arts and Sciences (CAS)
publishDate	2009
url	https://etd.uum.edu.my/1599/1/ABDULAZIZ_JAMA_OMAR_ABDI.pdf https://etd.uum.edu.my/1599/2/1.ABDULAZIZ_JAMA_OMAR_ABDI.pdf
_version_	1747827173328158720
spelling	my-uum-etd.15992013-07-24T12:12:28Z Comparative Study on the Performance of Different TCP Flavors 2009 Jama Omar Abdi, Abdulaziz College of Arts and Sciences (CAS) College of Arts and Sciences QA76 Computer software Indeed the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) is the main transport layer protocol for the end-to-end control that helps the creation of information communication. Most of today`s Internet applications depend on the Performance TCP simply because the most frequently used networks by today are the TCP/IP networks. TCP was originally created to handle the problem of network congestion collapse. In this research project, we had investigated the performance of four TCP variants namely Reno, Vegas, NewReno and SACK based on two performance measures: The Bandwidth (effective throughput) and fairness. The network topology is simple wired network and it will be configured into different scenarios to maximize the chances of achieving the desired goal. Simulation methodology is used in this study. The simulation tool or software that was used as an investigation environment is the popular NS-2 simulator. The objective was to investigate and find out the performance of TCP variants according to the bandwidth and fairness in a simple dumbbell wired network, in a hope to observe a better performance.However, the results are daunting, TCP Reno is the most aggressive (least fair one), and highest amount of throughput. In the case of TCP NewReno it follows Reno’s steps by becoming the second most aggressive (second least fair), and second highest throughput.SACK (Sack1) is fair to Reno and NewReno, but when it is competing with Vegas, it shows that it is very unfair. Finally Vegas shows the highest degree of fairness (least aggressive) and as well Vegas produces the lowest amount throughput. 2009 Thesis https://etd.uum.edu.my/1599/ https://etd.uum.edu.my/1599/1/ABDULAZIZ_JAMA_OMAR_ABDI.pdf application/pdf eng validuser https://etd.uum.edu.my/1599/2/1.ABDULAZIZ_JAMA_OMAR_ABDI.pdf application/pdf eng public masters masters Universiti Utara Malaysia [1] H. ELAARAG, “Improving TCP Performance over Mobile Networks”, ACM Computing Surveys, Vol. 34, No. 3, p. 357–374, 2002. [2] D.E. Commer, Internetworking TCP/IP: Principles, Protocols, and Architecture, Upper Saddle, New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 2006. [3] M. Ghaderi “TCP-Aware Resource Allocation in CDMA Networks” In Proc. ACM MobiCom, Los Angeles, USA. 2006 [4] G. Adrew, TCP/IP JumpStart : Internet Protocol Basics. Alameda, CA, USA: Sybex,Incorporated, 2002 [5] M. Hassan, High Performance TCP/IP Networking: Concepts, Issues, and Solutions, Upper Saddle, New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 2004. [6] TCP WESTWOOD Home available at: http://www.cs.ucla.edu/NRL/hpi/tcpw/ [7] L. A. Grieco and S. Mascolo “Performance Evaluation of Westwood+ TCP Congestion Control”, 2004. [8] W. Tomasi. Introduction to Data Communications and Networking. Upper Saddle River, New Jersey, Ohio: Pearson Prentice Hall, 2005. [9] A. H. Shabhli,S.Hassan and O.Ghazali , Layered Multicast: Performance Study of Round Trip Time Estimation for TCP-equation Model, Kedah, Malaysia: UUM, 2007. [10] The Network Simulator - NS-2 available at:http://isi.edu/nsnam/ns/,[Accessed: 5th January,2009].[11] J.Chung and M.Claypool “NS by Example” available at: http://nile.wpi.edu/NS/, 2009.[12] S. Low, L. Peterson, and L.Wang, “Understanding TCP Vegas: Theory and Practice ”University of Melbourne, Australia , 2000. [13]R. La, J. Walrand, and V. Anantharam “Issues in TCP Vegas” Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California at Berkeley, USA. [14] J. Mo, R.J. La, V. Anantharam, and J. Walrand, “Analysis and Comparison of TCP Reno and Vegas” Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California at Berkeley, USA.[15] M.Mathis, J.Mahdavi, S.Floyd and A.Romanow “TCP Selective Acknowledgment Options (SACK)” available at: http://www.opalsoft.net/qos/TCP-90.htm [16] Yee`s Homepage of TCP/IP “TCP variants” available at http://www.hep.ucl.ac.uk/~ytl/tcpip/background/tahoe-reno.html[Accessed: 7th Janaury, 2009].59[17] F. Anjum “Comparative Study of Various TCP Versions over a Wireless Link with Correlated Losses” IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking Vol.11, No, 3, 3003. [18] K. Fall and S. Floyd. “Simulation-based comparisons of Tahoe, Reno, and SACK TCP”. ACM Computer Communication Re-view, July 1996. [19]K. Thompson, G. J. Miller, and R. Wilder. “Wide-area internet patterns and characteristics”. IEEE Network, 11(6):10_23, November/December 1999 [20] J. Postel. “Transmission control protocol”. IETF RFC 793 Standard, 1981. [21] R. Braden. “A requirement for internet hosts -communication layers”. IETF RFC 1122,1989. [22] M. Allman, V. Paxson, andW. Stevens. “TCP congestion control” .IETF RFC 2581, 1999. [23] S. Floyd et.al “The NewReno Modification to TCP's Fast Recovery Algorithm”, RFC 3782, 2004. [24] O. Riva, Analysis of Internet Transport Service Performance with Active Queue Management in a QoS-enabled network, A PhD Thesis, University of Helsinki, 2003. [25] J. Postel . “Transmission Control Protocol”, RFC 793, September 1981. [26] B. A. Forouzan. TCP/IP Protocol Suite. Boston, McGraw Hill, 2006. [27]Huston G., Internet Performance Survival Guide :QoS Strategies for Multiservice Networks, New York, John Willey and Sons, 2000. [28] J. Kurhonen. Introduction to 3G Mobile Communications. Artech House, Boston, USA, 2nd Edition, 2003. [29] S. Floyd et al. “The NewReno Modification to TCP's Fast Recovery Algorithm”, RFC3782,2004. [30] J. Manner and M. Kojo, "Mobility Related Terminology", RFC3753, 2004. [31] S.Floyd et al. “Quick-Start for TCP and IP”, RFC 4782, 2007. [31]Webopedia, “FTP Definition” available at: http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/F/FTP.html [accessed 17th May 2009] [32] Wiki “TFP Definition” http://en.wikipedia.or /wiki/File_Transfer_Protocol”[Accessed 17th May 2009] [33] Network Simulator (NS-2) web site: http://www mash.cs.berkeley.edu/ns [34] Opnet Technologies Inc. web site: http://www.optnet.com 60 [35]M. Loetscher, Simulative Performance Optimization for TCP over UMTS, PhD thesis at the Institut für Technische Informatik und Kommunikationsnetze , Germnay, 2003. [36] The Network Simulator (NS-2) January 6, 2009. [37] O.Ghazali, Scaleable and smooth TCP-friendly receiver-based layered multicast protocol.PhD Thesis, College of Arts and Science, UUM, 2008 [39]B. Qureshi, M. Othman, and N. A. W. Hamid, “Progress in Various TCP Variants(February 2009)”, Faculty of IT, UPM, Malaysia [40] In Encyclopedia of Computer Science. “Definition of SIMULATION. ” Hoboken, NJ:Wiley. Available at: http://www.credoreference.com/entry/encyccs/simulation [Accessed May 17, 2009] [41] Ghazali, O. and S. Hassan. “TCP-friendly Layered Multicast Protocol for Multimedia Streaming” in the Proceedings of ICON 2005, Kuala Lumpur. [43] Starting Point Geosciences, “Analytical Models” available at: http://serc.carleton.edu/introgeo/mathstatmodels/Analytical.html” [accessed 18th May 2009] [44] The Blackwell Dictionary of Sociology, “Definition of Experiment” Publishers, 2000. Credo Reference. Available at: http://www.credoreference.com/entry/bksoc/experiment [accessed 18th May 2009] [45] S.Hassan, Simulation-based Performance Evaluation of TCP-friendly Protocols for Supporting Multimedia Applications in the Internet. PhD thesis, School of Computing, University of Leeds, 2003. [46] P. Wainwright, et al. Professional Perl Programming, Birmingham, UK: Wrox Press, 2001. [47]Trace record Examples of Performance Analysis using NS: http://www.mathcs.emory.edu/~cheung/Courses/558/Syllabus/05-TCPSim/Obsolete/PerfAnal.html [48]J.Olsen, Stochastic modeling and simulation of the TCP protocol, PhD thesis, Department of Mathematics Uppsala University.

﻿Comparative Study on the Performance of Different TCP Flavors

Similar Items

Comparative Study on the Performance of Different TCP Flavors