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NLPC: A nimble low-priority congestion control algorithm for high-speed and lossy networks

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DOI: 10.1016/j.jksuci.2022.08.030

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Low -priority; Congestion control; High-speed and lossy networks; Congestion degree

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  1. National Natural Science Foundation of China [61601252]
  2. Natural Science Foundation of Zhejiang Province of China [LY20F020008]
  3. Ningbo Natural Science Foundation [202003N4085]

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This paper introduces an enhanced LEDBAT protocol called NLPC, which aims to solve the throughput degradation issue of LEDBAT in high-speed and lossy networks. By introducing a variable gain value that can dynamically adapt to the network congestion degree to update the sending rate, NLPC increases throughput up to 40% compared to LEDBAT in high-speed lossy networks, while maintaining the low-priority feature as other LBE protocols.
Thousands of bursty and concurrent flows persistently overwhelm the bottleneck bandwidth. The quality of experience of low-latency applications (e.g. Web, AR/VR, IoT, VoIP, etc.) is inevitably influenced by the background applications (e.g. file-sharing, system updates) which tend to overfill the buffer of bottleneck links. To solve the above issues, Less-than-Best-Effort (LBE) protocols were proposed to support the data transmission of background applications. Therein, Low Extra Delay Background Transport (LEDBAT) is one of the most widely deployed LBE protocols. To achieve the low-priority feature, LEDBAT senders sat-urate the residual bandwidth of bottleneck links while keeping the low queuing delay. However, through the simulation, we observed that LEDBAT performs a severe throughput degradation in high-speed and lossy networks. To resolve this issue, an enhanced LEDBAT, named NLPC, is presented in this paper. NLPC introduces a variable gain value, which can dynamically adapt to the network congestion degree, to update the sending rate. Extensive simulations in NS-2 and some small-scale real-world experiments indicate that in high-speed and lossy networks, NLPC increases throughput up to 40% in comparison with LEDBAT, and maintains the low-priority feature as the other LBE protocols.(c) 2022 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier B.V. on behalf of King Saud University. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).

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