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TCP CUBIC versus BBR on the Highway

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4G Long Term Evolution (LTE) networks present new features of high capacities together with end-user mobility. These challenges have led to a gap in the understanding of the effectiveness of TCP congestion control algorithms in LTE networks with mobile users. To further understanding, we conduct a detailed measurement study comparing TCP CUBIC with Bottleneck Bandwidth and Round-trip propagation time (BBR) – a new congestion control alternative developed by Google – in a high-speed driving scenario over a tier-1 U.S. wireless carrier. Our results show CUBIC and BBR generally have similar throughputs, but BBR has significantly lower self-inflicted delays than CUBIC.

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    https://www.nsnam.org.

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    git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next.git.

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    CUBIC (k3.19) behaves similarly to CUBIC (k4.8).

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Acknowledgments

We would like thank our shepherd, Moritz Steiner, and the anonymous PAM reviewers for their valuable feedback. We also thank our colleagues Eduard Rubinstein, Vijay Nanjundan, James Flynn, and Atreya Praveen for their helpful discussions and assistance.

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  1. Verizon Labs, 60 Sylvan Road, Waltham, MA, 02451, USA

    Feng Li, Jae Won Chung & Xiaoxiao Jiang

  2. Worcester Polytechnic Institute, 100 Institute Road, Worcester, MA, 01609, USA

    Mark Claypool

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  2. Technical University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany

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Li, F., Chung, J.W., Jiang, X., Claypool, M. (2018). TCP CUBIC versus BBR on the Highway. In: Beverly, R., Smaragdakis, G., Feldmann, A. (eds) Passive and Active Measurement. PAM 2018. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10771. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-76481-8_20

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