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Commit 2b0a8c9e authored by Kenneth Klette Jonassen's avatar Kenneth Klette Jonassen Committed by David S. Miller
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tcp: add CDG congestion control

CAIA Delay-Gradient (CDG) is a TCP congestion control that modifies
the TCP sender in order to [1]:

  o Use the delay gradient as a congestion signal.
  o Back off with an average probability that is independent of the RTT.
  o Coexist with flows that use loss-based congestion control, i.e.,
    flows that are unresponsive to the delay signal.
  o Tolerate packet loss unrelated to congestion. (Disabled by default.)

Its FreeBSD implementation was presented for the ICCRG in July 2012;
slides are available at http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/84/iccrg.html



Running the experiment scenarios in [1] suggests that our implementation
achieves more goodput compared with FreeBSD 10.0 senders, although it also
causes more queueing delay for a given backoff factor.

The loss tolerance heuristic is disabled by default due to safety concerns
for its use in the Internet [2, p. 45-46].

We use a variant of the Hybrid Slow start algorithm in tcp_cubic to reduce
the probability of slow start overshoot.

[1] D.A. Hayes and G. Armitage. "Revisiting TCP congestion control using
    delay gradients." In Networking 2011, pages 328-341. Springer, 2011.
[2] K.K. Jonassen. "Implementing CAIA Delay-Gradient in Linux."
    MSc thesis. Department of Informatics, University of Oslo, 2015.

Cc: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Cc: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com>
Cc: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Cc: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>
Cc: David Hayes <davihay@ifi.uio.no>
Cc: Andreas Petlund <apetlund@simula.no>
Cc: Dave Taht <dave.taht@bufferbloat.net>
Cc: Nicolas Kuhn <nicolas.kuhn@telecom-bretagne.eu>
Signed-off-by: default avatarKenneth Klette Jonassen <kennetkl@ifi.uio.no>
Acked-by: default avatarYuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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