TCP-Illinois

TCP-Illinois is a congestion control algorithm for high speed networks. It inherits the good features of TCP and modifies the features of TCP which are not suitable for high speed networks. It satisfies all the requirements for a high speed variants and has great performance. TCP-Illinois is invented by Shao Liu, under the direction of his co-advisors, Professor Tamer Basar and Professor R. Srikant. This work is done in University of Illinois, and this new protocol is named after this university.

Background I: TCP and Congestion Control:

• What is TCP?
• What is congestion control?

Background II: High Speed TCP Variant:

• Why need another TCP?
• What is the requirement to the next version of TCP?
• What are the prior high speed TCP variants? Why they are not ideal?

TCP-Illinois: Idea and Protocol:

• The intuitive idea and the motivation..
• The protocol description.

TCP-Illinois: properties and performance.

• Efficiency
• Fairness, stability and responsiveness
• Compatibility and incentive to switch
• Avoidance of severe congestion
• Robustness against noisy measurement

TCP-Illinois: simulation study.

Papers, Awards, Accomplishment on this project.

Related Work.