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TCP Congestion Control

TCP Congestion Control. Dina Katabi & Sam Madden nms.csail.mit.edu/~dina. Sharing the Internet. Difficult because of: Size Billions of users, links, routers Heterogeneity bandwidth: 9.6Kb/s (then modem, now cellular), 10 Tb/s

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TCP Congestion Control

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  1. TCP Congestion Control Dina Katabi & Sam Madden nms.csail.mit.edu/~dina

  2. Sharing the Internet Difficult because of: • Size • Billions of users, links, routers • Heterogeneity • bandwidth: 9.6Kb/s (then modem, now cellular), 10 Tb/s • latency: 50us (LAN), 133ms (wired), 1s (satellite), 260s (Mars) How do you manage resources in a huge system like the Internet, where users with different interests share the same links?

  3. 10Mb/s S1 R1 2Mb/s D 100Mb/s S2 S1 S2 Congestion • Sources compete for link bandwidth, and buffer space • Why a problem? • Sources are unaware of current state of resource • Sources are unaware of each other • Manifestations: • Lost packets (buffer overflow at routers) • Long delays (queuing in router buffers) • In many situations will result in < 2 Mb/s of throughput for the above topology (congestion collapse)

  4. 10Mb/s S1 R1 2Mb/s D 100Mb/s S2 Objectives of Congestion Control Efficiency & Fairness • Efficiency • Maximize link utilization • Minimize queue size (i.e., delay) • Minimize packet drops • Many solutions! • (S1= 1 Mb/s, S2= 1 Mb/s) and (S1=1.5 Mb/s, S2=0.5 Mb/s) are both efficient. • Want Fairness

  5. S1 9Mb/s R1 D S2 S2 1= 1Mb/s 2= 7Mb/s 3=  Demands 1= 1Mb/s 2= 4Mb/s 3= 4Mb/s Max-min Fair Rates Fairness • Max-Min Fairness • At each bottleneck, user gets min(user’s demand, fair share) • User’s rate is the minimum max-min fair rate along the path

  6. TCP

  7. TCP • TCP provides reliability & congestion control • Reliable transmission ensures the receiver’s application receives the correct and complete data sent by the sender’s application • TCP recovers from lost packets, eliminates duplicates and ensures in-order packet delivery to the application • Reliability was discussed in 6.02 • Congestion control • Sender reacts to congestion and discovers its fair and efficient send rate

  8. TCP Cong. Cont. • Basic Idea: • Send a few packets. If a packet is dropped decrease rate. If no drops, increase rate • How does TCP detect drops? • Packets have sequence numbers • Receiver acks the next expected sequence number (i.e., if received 1, it acks 2 saying it is expecting 2 to arrive next. Note that TCP implementations ack bytes but for simplicity we talk about acking packets.)

  9. TCP controls throughput via the congestion window • Congestion window is the number of outstanding packets, i.e., number of packets sender can send without waiting for an ack • TCP is window-based: sources change their sending rate by modifying the window size: “cwnd” • Avg. Throughput = (Avg. cwnd) /(Avg. RTT) • Why not changing rate directly? • Window protocols are easy to implement (no need for accurate timers, i.e., works for slow machines an sensors)

  10. How much should TCP Increase/decrease? • Probe for the correct sending window • Additive Increase / Multiplicative Decrease (AIMD) • Every RTT: No loss: cwnd = cwnd + 1 A loss: cwnd = cwnd /2

  11. cwnd += 1 cwnd = 2 cwnd = 1 cwnd = 3 cwnd = 4 D A D D A A D D D A A A Additive Increase Src Dest Actually, On ack arrival: cwnd = cwnd + 1/cwnd On timeout: cwnd = cwnd /2

  12. (bx1+a,bx2+a) (bx1,bx2) AIMD Leads to Efficiency and Fairness fairness line (x1,x2) User 2: x2 Efficiency line (x1+x2 = BW) User 1: x1

  13. Timeout because of a packet loss correct cwnd Grab back Bandwidth Halve Congestion Window (and Rate) TCP AIMD Congestion Window Time Need the queue to absorb these saw-tooth oscillations

  14. “Slow Start” • Cold start a connection at startup or after a timeout • At the beginning of a connection, increase exponentially • On ack arrival: cwnd += 1 1 2 4 8 Src D D D A A D D D D A A A A A A A A A Dest

  15. AIMD Slow start stops at halve previous cwnd Exponential Increase Adding Slow Start Congestion Window Loss+Timeout Time

  16. Tweaking TCP Fast Retransmit • Timeouts are too slow • When packet is dropped, receiver still acks the next in-order packet • Use 3 duplicate ACKs to indicate a drop • Why 3? When this does not work? Fast Recovery • If there are still ACKs coming in then no need for slow-start • Divide cwnd by 2 after fast retransmit • Increment cwnd by 1/cwnd for each dupack

  17. Putting It Together Congestion Window Time

  18. Putting It Together Congestion Window Time Slow Start

  19. Putting It Together 3 dupacks (Fast Retransmit) Congestion Window Time

  20. Putting It Together Congestion Window Time Fast Recovery

  21. so, drop rate is: 1 drop every Throughput  is the packets sent divided by the time it took to send them From the two eq. TCP Steady-State Throughput as Function of Loss Rate W(t) 1 drop Wm Wm/2 RTT * Wm/2 time

  22. Reflections on TCP • The probing mechanism of TCP is based on causing congestion then detecting it • Assumes that all sources cooperate • Assumes flows are long enough • Too bursty • Vulnerable to non-congestion related loss (e.g. wireless errors) • Unfair to long RTT flows

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