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FreeBSD" FreeBSD Foundation funded project. - Add new man pages for the modular congestion control, Khelp and Hhook frameworks (cc.4, cc.9, khelp.9 and hhook.9). - Add new man pages for each available congestion control algorithm (cc_chd.4, cc_cubic.4, cc_hd.4, cc_htcp.4, cc_newreno.4 and cc_vegas.4). - Add a new man page for the Enhanced Round Trip Time (ERTT) Khelp module (h_ertt.4). - Update the TCP (tcp.4) man page to mention the TCP_CONGESTION socket option, cross reference to cc.4 and remove references to the retired "net.inet.tcp.newreno" sysctl MIB variable. In collaboration with: David Hayes <dahayes at swin edu au> and Grenville Armitage <garmitage at swin edu au> Sponsored by: FreeBSD Foundation MFC after: 3 months
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.\" Copyright (c) 2010-2011 The FreeBSD Foundation
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.\" This documentation was written at the Centre for Advanced Internet
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.\" Architectures, Swinburne University, Melbourne, Australia by David Hayes
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.\" $FreeBSD$
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.Dd February 15, 2011
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.Dt CC_CHD 4
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.Os
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.Sh NAME
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.Nm cc_chd
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.Nd CHD Congestion Control Algorithm
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.Sh DESCRIPTION
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CHD enhances the HD algorithm implemented in
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.Xr cc_hd 4 .
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It provides tolerance to non-congestion related packet loss and improvements to
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coexistence with traditional loss-based TCP flows, especially when the
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bottleneck link is lightly multiplexed.
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.Pp
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Like HD, the algorithm aims to keep network queuing delays below a particular
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threshold (queue_threshold) and decides to reduce the congestion window (cwnd)
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probabilistically based on its estimate of the network queuing delay.
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.Pp
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It differs from HD in three key aspects:
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.Bl -bullet
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.It
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The probability of cwnd reduction due to congestion is calculated once per round
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trip time instead of each time an acknowledgement is received as done by
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.Xr cc_hd 4 .
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.It
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Packet losses that occur while the queuing delay is less than queue_threshold
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do not cause cwnd to be reduced.
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.It
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CHD uses a shadow window to help regain lost transmission opportunities when
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competing with loss-based TCP flows.
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.Sh MIB Variables
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The algorithm exposes the following tunable variables in the
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.Va net.inet.tcp.cc.chd
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branch of the
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.Xr sysctl 3
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MIB:
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.Bl -tag -width ".Va queue_threshold"
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.It Va queue_threshold
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Queueing congestion threshold (qth) in ticks.
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Default is 20.
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.It Va pmax
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Per RTT maximum backoff probability as a percentage.
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Default is 50.
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.It Va qmin
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Minimum queuing delay threshold (qmin) in ticks.
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Default is 5.
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.It Va loss_fair
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If 1, cwnd is adjusted using the shadow window when a congestion
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related loss is detected.
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Default is 1.
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.It Va use_max
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If 1, the maximum RTT seen within the measurement period is used as the basic
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delay measurement for the algorithm, otherwise a sampled RTT measurement
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is used.
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Default is 1.
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.El
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.Sh SEE ALSO
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.Xr cc 4 ,
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.Xr cc_cubic 4 ,
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.Xr cc_hd 4 ,
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.Xr cc_htcp 4 ,
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.Xr cc_newreno 4 ,
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.Xr cc_vegas 4 ,
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.Xr h_ertt 4 ,
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.Xr tcp 4 ,
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.Xr cc 9 ,
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.Xr khelp 9
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.Rs
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.%A "D. A. Hayes"
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.%A "G. Armitage"
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.%T "Improved coexistence and loss tolerance for delay based TCP congestion control"
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.%J "in 35th Annual IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks"
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.%D "October 2010"
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.%P "24-31"
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.Re
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.Sh ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
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Development and testing of this software were made possible in part by grants
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from the FreeBSD Foundation and Cisco University Research Program Fund at
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Community Foundation Silicon Valley.
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.Sh HISTORY
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The
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.Nm
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congestion control module first appeared in
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.Fx 9.0 .
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.Pp
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The module was first released in 2010 by David Hayes whilst working on the
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NewTCP research project at Swinburne University's Centre for Advanced Internet
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Architectures, Melbourne, Australia.
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More details are available at:
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.Pp
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http://caia.swin.edu.au/urp/newtcp/
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.Sh AUTHORS
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.An -nosplit
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The
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.Nm
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congestion control module and this manual page were written by
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.An David Hayes Aq david.hayes@ieee.org .
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