Performance of the fair intelligent congestion control for TCP applications over ATM networks: a simulation analysis

Abstract

This paper presents a simulation study of the performance of TCP traffic over ATM network ABR service under the fair intelligent congestion control (FICC) scheme recently proposed. The simulation experiments are conducted on various network configurations, and traffic patterns. The key metrics of TCP effective throughput, packet delay, delay variation, and fairness are measured. Simulation results show that FICC is superior to existing schemes in terms of well-guaranteed fairness, minimized and bounded buffer requirement, minimized packet variation delay, easy parameter settings, robustness to parameter mistuning, and simple implementation.