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BBR Fairness Evaluation Using NS-3

Networking and Internet Architecture 2024-10-31 v1

Abstract

This paper evaluates the fairness of BBR congestion control using NS-3 simulator. While BBR improves performance over loss-based methods in single flows, unfairness issues emerge with competing BBR and BBR/Cubic flows. Unfairness correlates with factors like round-trip time and buffer size. The core reason is the lack of responding mechanisms for the flows to converge on fair bandwidth share.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2410.22560,
  title  = {BBR Fairness Evaluation Using NS-3},
  author = {Linchuan Tang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2410.22560},
  year   = {2024}
}
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