@conference {17532, title = {Receiver based management of low bandwidth access links}, booktitle = {IEEE INFOCOM 2000. Nineteenth Annual Joint Conference of the IEEE Computer and Communications Societies. Proceedings}, volume = {1}, year = {2000}, month = {2000///}, pages = {245-254 vol.1 - 245-254 vol.1}, publisher = {IEEE}, organization = {IEEE}, abstract = {In this paper, we describe a receiver-based congestion control policy that leverages TCP flow control mechanisms to prioritize mixed traffic loads across access links. We manage queueing at the access link to: (1) improve the response time of interactive network applications; (2) reduce congestion-related packet losses; while (3) maintaining high throughput for bulk-transfer applications. Our policy controls queue length by manipulating receive socket buffer sizes. We have implemented this solution in a dynamically loadable Linux kernel module, and tested it over low-bandwidth links. Our approach yields a 7-fold improvement in packet latency over an unmodified system while maintaining 94\% link utilization. In the common case, congestion-related packet losses at the access link can be eliminated. Finally, by prioritizing short flows, we show that our system reduces the time to download a complex Web page during a large background transfer by a factor of two}, keywords = {Bandwidth, buffer storage, bulk-transfer applications, complex Web page, congestion control policy, Delay, dynamically loadable Linux kernel module, information resources, interactive network, Internet, Kernel, link utilization, Linux, low-bandwidth access links, mixed traffic load, packet latency, queue length, queueing theory, receive socket buffer sizes, receiver-based management, response time, short flow prioritizing, Size control, Sockets, subscriber loops, TCP flow control, telecommunication congestion control, telecommunication network management, Telecommunication traffic, Testing, Throughput, Transport protocols, Unix, Web pages}, isbn = {0-7803-5880-5}, doi = {10.1109/INFCOM.2000.832194}, author = {Spring, Neil and Chesire,M. and Berryman,M. and Sahasranaman,V. and Anderson,T. and Bershad,B.} }