AcTMs (active ATM switches) with TAP (Trusted and Active PDU Transfers) in a multiagent architecture to better the chaotic nature of TCP congestion control

Abstract

TAP (Trusted and Active PDU transfers) is a distributed architecture and a protocol for ATM networks that provides assured transfers to a set of privileged VPI/VCI. Our AcTMs (Active ATM switch) model supports the trusted protocol. This research also offers an attractive solution to the chaotic nature of TCP Congestion Control. Several simulations demonstrate the effectiveness of the mechanism that recovers the congested PDU locally at the congested switches with better end-to-end goodput in the network. Also, the senders are alleviated of NACK and end-to-end retransmissions. ̂ Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2005.