A remedy for performance degradation of TCP Vegas in asymmetric networks

摘要

Many previous studies have indicated that TCP Vegas outperforms TCP Reno. This letter shows that in asymmetric networks in which the bottleneck is on the reverse path rather than on the forward path, Vegas underutilizes the available bandwidth on the forward path by a large margin. A solution that makes use of the TCP timestamp option can effectively restore the throughput on the forward path.