Diffusion Early Marking Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of Delaware May / 2004 Rafael Nunez Gonzalo Arce

2 Diffusion Early Marking Introduction Diffusion Early Marking Model Optimizations. Parameters Estimation Performance Conclusions and Future Work

3 The Internet Today

4 Congestion Desirable control: distributed, simple, stable and fair.

5 Problems with Tail Dropping Penalizes bursty traffic Discriminates against large propagation delay connections. Global synchronization.

6 Active Queue Management (AQM) Random Early Detection (Floyd and Jacobson, 1993) Router becomes active in congestion control. RED has been deployed in some Cisco routers.

7 Random Early Detection (RED) Random packet drops in queue. Drop probability based on average queue: Four parameters:  q min  q max  P max  w q (overparameterized)

8 Queue Behavior in RED

9 Queue Behavior in RED (2) 20 new flows every 20 seconds Wq = 0.01 Wq = 0.001

10 Other AQM’s Schemes Adaptive RED, REM, GREEN, BLUE,… Problems:  Over-parameterization  Not easy to implement in routers  Not much better performance than drop tail

11 REM vs. RED

12 Diffusion Mechanisms for AQM Instantaneous queue size. Better packet marking strategy. Simplified parameters.

13 Error Diffusion Packet marking is analogous to halftoning:  Convert a continuous gray-scale image into black or white dots  Packet marking reduces to quantization Error diffusion: The error between input (continuous) and output (discrete) is incorporated in subsequent outputs. P[n] is the drop probability

14 Diffusion Mechanism Where:

15 Probability of Marking a Packet Gentle RED function closely follows: (A)

16 Evolution of the Congestion Window TCP in steady state: (B)

17 Traffic in the Network Congestion Window = Packets In The Pipe + Packets In The Queue Or: (C) From (A), (B), (C), and knowing that : where

18 Probability Function

19 Significant Flows 0 flows in timeout  Ef = 1 Some flows in timeout  Ef = (0.8 ~ 1) Most of the flows in timeout.  Ef  1/N If number of flows exceeds capacity, then some of the flows timeout

20 Algorithm Summary Diffusion Early Marking decides whether to mark a packet or not as: Where: M=2, b 1 =2/3, b 2 =1/3 Remember:

21 Number of Flows The number of significant flows:

22 Stability of the Queue 100 long lived connections (TCP/Reno, FTP) Desired queue size = 30 packets

23 Changing the number of flows 20 new flows every 20 seconds

24 Conclusions and Future Work Queue length stabilized and controlled without adjusting parameters. Diffusion mechanism improves the behavior of the proposed AQM scheme. Future Work:  Optimize the estimation of parameters  Analyze more traffic scenarios  Complete the performance measures: fairness, throughput  Compare with other AQMs  Use diffusion mechanism in other AQMs