Experimental evaluation of TCP performance over 10Gb/s passive optical networks (XG-PON)

Jerome A. Arokkiam; Xiuchao Wu; Kenneth N. Brown; Cormac J. Sreenan

doi:10.1109/GLOCOM.2014.7037138

Experimental evaluation of TCP performance over 10Gb/s passive optical networks (XG-PON)

Jerome A. Arokkiam
, Xiuchao Wu
, Kenneth N. Brown
, Cormac J. Sreenan

University College Cork

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XG-PON is the next-generation standard for passive optical networks operating at 10Gb/s and TCP is the dominant transport protocol of the Internet. In this paper, we present the first performance evaluation of TCP over XG-PON, considering efficiency, fairness, responsiveness, and convergence. The impact of XG-PON's large delay-bandwidth product and asymmetric bandwidth provision are assessed, together with the dynamic bandwidth allocation mechanism. Our state-of-the-art NS3 simulation uses real implementations of three TCP variants (Reno, CUBIC and H-TCP) from the Network Simulation Cradle. Our results highlight several issues that arise for TCP over XG-PON, and emphasise the need for improved awareness of medium access control and scheduling in the context of specific TCP congestion control behaviour.

Original language	English
Article number	7037138
Pages (from-to)	2223-2228
Number of pages	6
Journal	Proceedings - IEEE Global Communications Conference, GLOBECOM
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/GLOCOM.2014.7037138
Publication status	Published - 2014
Event	2014 IEEE Global Communications Conference, GLOBECOM 2014 - Austin, United States Duration: 8 Dec 2014 → 12 Dec 2014

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