On Control Parameters Tuning for Active Queue Management Mechanisms using Multivariate Analysis

In recent years, AQM (Active Queue Management) mechanisms, which support the end-to-end congestion control mechanism of TCP by performing congestion control at a router, have been actively studied by many researchers. AQM mechanisms usually have several control parameters, and their effectiveness depends on a setting of those control parameters. Therefore, issues on parameter tuning of several AQM mechanisms have been extensively studied using simulation experiments. However, in most of those studies, only a small number of simulation experiments are performed for investigating the effect of control parameters on the performance of AQM mechanisms. In this paper, we therefore statistically analyze a large number of simulation experiments using multivariate analysis, and quantitatively show how the performance of AQM mechanisms is affected by a setting of control parameters. In particular, we analyze the performance of three AQM mechanisms: GRED (Gentle RED), DRED (Dynamic-RED), and SRE...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2003
• Where: SAINT
• Authors: Tomoya Eguchi, Hiroyuki Ohsaki, Masayuki Murata
• Keywords: AQM Mechanisms, Congestion Control, Control Parameters, Internet Technology, SAINT 2003