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In this research, we investigate the feasibility of adopting the Bottleneck Bandwidth and Round-trip propagation time (BBR) protocol as the default congestion control mechanism for TCP. Our central question is whether BBR, particularly its…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Josue Abreu , Paul Bergeron , Sandhya Aneja

The congestion control algorithm bring such importance that it avoids the network link into severe congestion and guarantees network normal operation. Since The loss based algorithms introduce high transmission delay, to design new…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-09-10 Songyang Zhang

BBRv2, proposed by Google, aims at addressing BBR's shortcomings of unfairness against loss-based congestion control algorithms (CCAs) and excessive retransmissions in shallow-buffered networks. In this paper, we first comprehensively study…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-07-08 Furong Yang , Qinghua Wu , Zhenyu Li , Yanmei Liu , Giovanni Pau , Gaogang Xie

Motivated by the recent introduction and large-scale deployment of BBR congestion control algorithms, multiple studies have investigated the performance and fairness implications of this shift from loss-based to delay-based congestion…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-01-12 Kathrin Elmenhorst , Nils Aschenbruck

TCP BBR's behavior has been explained by various theoretical models, and in particular those that describe how it co-exists with other types of flows. However, as new versions of the BBR protocol have emerged, it remains unclear to what…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Fatih Berkay Sarpkaya , Ashutosh Srivastava , Fraida Fund , Shivendra Panwar

BBR is a new congestion-based congestion control algorithm proposed by Google. A BBR flow sequentially measures the bottleneck bandwidth and round-trip delay of the network pipe, and uses the measured results to govern its sending behavior,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-07-27 Shiyao Ma , Jingjie Jiang , Wei Wang , Bo Li

The behavior of loss-based TCP congestion control algorithms like TCP CUBIC continues to be a challenge in modern cellular networks. Due to the large RLC layer buffers required to deal with short-term changes in channel capacity, the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-10-30 Lukas Prause , Mark Akselrod

Google's BBR is the most prominent result of the recently revived quest for efficient, fair, and flexible congestion-control algorithms (CCAs). While the performance of BBR has been investigated by numerous studies, previous work still…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-08-24 Simon Scherrer , Markus Legner , Adrian Perrig , Stefan Schmid

Google's BBR (Bottleneck Bandwidth and Round-trip Propagation Time) approach is used to enhance internet network transmission. It is particularly intended to efficiently handle enormous amounts of data. Traditional TCP (Transmission Control…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-02-09 Vaishnavi Mhaske , Khushi Jain , Sai Karthik Thatikonda , Asif Kunwar

We present a modular experimental testbed and lightweight visualization tool for evaluating TCP congestion control performance in wireless networks. We compare Google's latest Bottleneck Bandwidth and Round-trip time version 3 (BBRv3)…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Shyam Kumar Shrestha , Jonathan Kua , Shiva Raj Pokhrel

The choice of feedback mechanism between delay and packet loss has long been a point of contention in TCP congestion control. This has partly been resolved, as it has become increasingly evident that delay based methods are needed to…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-01-01 Taran Lynn , Dipak Ghosal

Quite a few algorithms have been proposed to optimize the transmission performance of Multipath TCP (MPTCP). However, existing MPTCP protocols are still far from satisfactory in lossy and ever-changing networks because of their loss-based…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-06-14 Jiangping Han , Yitao Xing , Kaiping Xue , David S. L. Wei , Guoliang Xue , Peilin Hong

Effective congestion control for data center networks is becoming increasingly challenging with a growing amount of latency sensitive traffic, much fatter links, and extremely bursty traffic. Widely deployed algorithms, such as DCTCP and…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Prateesh Goyal , Preey Shah , Kevin Zhao , Georgios Nikolaidis , Mohammad Alizadeh , Thomas E. Anderson

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…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-10-31 Linchuan Tang

To understand the fairness properties of the BBR congestion-control algorithm (CCA), previous research has analyzed BBR behavior with a variety of models. However, previous model-based work suffers from a trade-off between accuracy and…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Simon Scherrer , Adrian Perrig , Stefan Schmid

We consider online optimization with binary decision variables and convex loss functions. We design a new algorithm, binary online gradient descent (bOGD) and bound its expected dynamic regret. We provide a regret bound that holds for any…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-01-21 Antoine Lesage-Landry , Joshua A. Taylor , Duncan S. Callaway

Providing multi-connectivity services is an important goal for next generation wireless networks, where multiple access networks are available and need to be integrated into a coherent solution that efficiently supports both reliable and…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-07-01 Nathalie Romo Moreno , Markus Amend , Anna Brunstrom , Andreas Kassler , Veselin Rakocevic

Widespread use of computer networks and the use of varied technology for the interconnection of computers has made congestion a significant problem. In this report, we summarize our research on congestion avoidance. We compare the concept…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2007-05-23 R. Jain , K. Ramakrishnan , D. Chiu

When developing a new networking algorithm, it is established practice to run a randomized experiment, or A/B test, to evaluate its performance. In an A/B test, traffic is randomly allocated between a treatment group, which uses the new…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-10-04 Bruce Spang , Veronica Hannan , Shravya Kunamalla , Te-Yuan Huang , Nick McKeown , Ramesh Johari

Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) has been profusely used by most of internet applications. Since 1970s, several TCP variants have been developed in order to cope with the fast increasing of network capacities especially in high Bandwidth…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-10-13 Mohamed A. Alrshah , Mohamed Othman , Borhanuddin Ali , Zurina Mohd Hanapia
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