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TCP tuning by YeAH Congestion Control Algorithm

Transmission Control Protocol Tuning by YeAH

A.Muhammad (8604169014,aavish9@hotmail.com), K. Fazal Ullah (8404231493,fazleejan@hotmail.com)

 parameters of the TCP. Some of the important parameters are

Abstract—Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) is mostly used like Round Trip Time (RTT), slow start rate and link delay.
with connection oriented application. To manage the traffic and Link delay; cater for the time for pushing the bits of packets
reduce the packet lose rate during transmission congestion
over the transmission link. Another important one is RTT,
control algorithm are used. Yet Another Highspeed (YeAH) is
one of the congestion control algorithm. The purpose of this which is the whole time when a Client sends a packet to the
paper is to evaluate the effects of YeAH on the TCP performance. server and receives an acknowledgement (ACK) from the
The performance parameters are link delay, bandwidth, window server. It is calculated as the difference between the time of a
size, and slow start rate. The main purpose is to monitor the TCP packet on which it was sent and the time of the ACK for that
performance before and after tuning the different parameters packet received [3], But it is also important to note that the
over link.
time for which the server and client are get disconnected, is
Index Terms—TCP, TCP parameters, YeAH algorithm,
not catered in that. Also another important parameter is the
congestion control algorithm. RTT(round trip time) study of slow start, which is the important algorithm used by
TCP to control the congestion in the network. It is also named
I. INTRODUCTION as exponential growth phase. Whenever it receives an ACK, it
increases the TCP congestion window by the number of
T HE performance of TCP in transmission link is severely
degraded by the packets lost. To overcome this problem
congestion control algorithms are used, one of them is YeAH.
segments acknowledged. It keeps on doing like this until it
reaches the set threshold or not receives ACK for some of the
segments. So whenever this kind of situation occurs TCP
YeAH mostly used in High speed transmission as its name
enters into linear growth phase called the congestion
suggest. It operates with two modes, fast and slow. When the
avoidance phase which is not our concern here.
traffic on the transmission link is heavy the chances of
congestion increases, fast YeAH mode increases the size of
congestion window to provide flexible transmission [2]. While
in slow mode operation it acts like TCP Reno and YeAH use
network capacity efficiently. Basically TCP congestion is
based is congestion control mechanism which is based on the
window size, by which it successfully deals with link traffic.
Incorporating the optimal solution to the traffic management
in the transmission link, a lot of TCP algorithms are designed,
concerning to the packet loss detection.
The aim of this work is to tune the TCP parameters on
Linux by setting the congestion control as YeAH. And then
monitor using Wireshark, before and after tuning.
The paper organization is, literature, problem solution how Fig. 1. Congestion Control Slow start
to tune the parameters, results and at the end conclusion.
Basically these all are the important parameters that we
II. LITERATURE REVIEW will concentrate to study during the experiment for testing our
Before moving to YeAH congestion control algorithm, we algorithm for tuning of the TCP.
should have some background knowledge of the TCP. For Network capacity is an obvious goal for the design of an
incorporating the high speed transmission link between client optimum algorithm which is normally achieved by the
and server, TCP first matches the transmission rates of the congestion window update [4]. YeAH was design to compete
both; this is performed by the window sizing. At this stage a the Reno, which was considered the most high speed
proper and well organized handshake process between the supporting algorithm at that time but an algorithm was needed
client and server is observed regarding to the streaming rates. which provides the better link capacity and RTT than Reno.
Infact it is the window size which defines the data rate of An algorithm was needed which better deals with lossy links
client to server, which eventually leads to the bandwidth of the and it was prohibited to design a buffer equal to bandwidth
link definition. In YeAH we will cater some special delay product as was in Reno. Using the YeAH algorithm the
results we get is more or less near to the ideal link [1].
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III. RESEARCH QUESTION AND PROBLEM STATEMENT Slow start is the time calculated from time sequence graph
given below which is 0.06sec for 25, 0000 sequence numbers.
How to improve the TCP performance and link bandwidth
by changing the suitable parameters under congestion
algorithm YeAH (yet another high speed). The main features
under consideration are as follows:
 Improvement in download speed
 Slow start rate
 Link delay and
 Link bandwidth
The main contribution of this paper is to study of the TCP
parameters, to notice the change in above features before and
after tuning using YeAH. The OS environment used for this
purpose is LINUX (UBUNTU).

IV. PROBLEM SOLUTION

We used wireshark to capture the results of the YeAH
congestion control algorithm in TCP over the OS LINUX Fig. 2. I/O before TCP Tuning
before tuning TCP parameters. By setting captures filter TCP
HTTP (80) for link and downloading a 100MB file from the
internet for studying the download speed of the file. After the
complete download we have further investigated the other
parameters such as window size, time delay, bandwidth and
also captured different types of graphs for RTT, throughput
and slow start.

V. TCP USED PARAMETERS

Now we can change many parameters of TCP but in this
case we have changed some important parameters of the TCP
for tuning it for improved performance. We have work on the
parameters like tcp_rmem, tcp_wmem and tcp_fin_timeout.
Both rmem and wmem having three values as minimum,
default and maximum. We can only change minimum value of
both the parameters.tcp_fin_timeout is basically having
integer values, by default its value is 60. For our algorithm we
changed rmem and wmem to 8912 from 4096 minimum value
and tcp_fin_timeout to 80.All this done through command
below: Fig. 3. Throughput before tuning
@Sysctl –w net.ipv4.tcp_rmem/wmem/fin_timeout=’value’
wmen and rmem are related to the buffer size of sender and
receiver. There increase has dominant effect on congestion
avoidance. fin_timeout is related to the save link resources if
link is not used in a defined time. Now with wireshark set
with filter TCP HTTP (80), we have repeated the above
procedure to get the results, graphs and values.

VI. RESULTS

From the summary layout we have calculated, the value of

link delay by using following formula:
Link delay= time between first and last packet
Total No. of packets
= 0.000985 sec
For the link bandwidth it is:
Avg. MBits/sec (BW) = 7.947 Fig. 4. Time/Sequence before tuning
Window size = 7296
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Now the same graphs after tuning TCP parameters are given
below. From the summary layout we have calculated, the
value of link delay by using following formula:

Link delay= time between first and last packet

Total No. of packets
= 0.000929
For the link bandwidth it is:
Avg. MBits/sec (BW) = 8.448
Window size = 7496
Slow start is the time calculated from time sequence graph
given below which is 4 sec for 10,000000 sequence number.

Fig. 7. Throughput after tuning

We can see that the downloading speed is increased that

means the RTT is decreased dramatically. The reason is that
yeAH fully exploit the network capacity.

VII. CONCLUSION
Fig. 5. I/O graph after changing parameters It is clearly being observed that YeAH defiantly have some
drastic impact over the performance of the TCP congestion
control mechanism. By fully exploiting the link capacity and
transmission traffic management.

REFERENCES
[1] M. Allman, V. Paxson, and W. Stevens.’’ TCP Congestion Control’’,
April 1999,
[2] Amit Aggarwal, Stefan Savage and Thomas Anderson.’’Understanding
of the Performance of TCP Pacing’’, March 30, 2000, IEEE Info Com
2000.
[3] ‘’Performance Analysis of TCP Congestion Control Algorithms’’-via
habibullah jamal , kiran sultan, international journals of computer and
communications,Pakistan.
[4] YeAH-TCP Yet Another Highspeed TCP-INFOCOM Department -
University of Roma ”Sapienza”, Via Eudossiana 18, 00184 Roma, Italy

Fig. 6. Time Sequence after tuning