Avoiding Congestion Collapse on the Internet Using TCP Tunnels

• Main Authors: LEE, Boon Peng, BALAN, Rajesh Krishna, Lillykutty, Jacob, Seah, Winston, Ananda, A. L.
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2002
• Subjects: TCP tunnels; Aggregation; Quality of service; Congestion collapse; Queue management; Flow back-pressure; Random early drop routers; Software Engineering
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/70; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/1069/viewcontent/AvoidCongestionTCPTunnels_2002_CN.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

This paper discusses the application of TCP tunnels on the Internet and how Internet traffic can benefit from the congestion control mechanism of the tunnels. Primarily, we show the TCP tunnels offer TCP-friendly flows protection from TCP-unfriendly traffic. TCP tunnels also reduce the many flows si...