A New Method for Macroflows Delimitation from a Receiver’s Perspective

published in the International Journal of Computer, Communication & Control – proceedings of the IEEE 2nd International Conference on Computers, Communications & Control (ICCCC 2008), Felix Spa, Romania, Vol. III (2008), ISSN 1841-9836, pp. 201-205.

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A New Method for Macroflows Delimitation from a Receiver’s Perspective

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Darius Bufnea
Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science,
Babeş-Bolyai University of Cluj-Napoca

Abstract

This paper presents a new approach for shared bottlenecks detection from a receiver’s perspective. This approach uses flow clustering at the receiver, based on passive observations of inter-packet arrival time intervals. We also suggest a new cost function useful in the flows clusterization process into macroflows. The proposed method can be used in the discovery of path patterns or for extending the macroflow granularity in an improved Congestion Manager.

Key words

congestion control, bottleneck, congestion manager, macroflow

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