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Congestion avoidance mechanisms are used to prevent the saturation of the gateway which represents a bottleneck of the system. Recently, a new method for the congestion avoidance has been proposed: the smart access point with limited advertised window (SAP-LAW). The main idea is to hijack at the gateway the acknowledge packets in the transmission control protocol (TCP) connections in order to artificially reduce the advertised destination window according to some bandwidth allocation policy. Therefore, the flux control mechanism is artificially exploited to control the congestion at the bottleneck. The advantage of this approach is that it does not drop any packet and does not require any modification in the TCP implementations at the clients. While the most popular congestion avoidance mechanisms are the explicit congestion notification (ECN) and the random early detection (RED). In this paper, we propose stochastic models for the ECN/RED and SAP-LAW mechanisms in order to compare their performances under different scenarios. The models are studied in mean field regime, i.e. under a great number of TCP connections and UDP-based transmissions. Different from previous work for the ECN/RED, in this paper, we consider the presence of UDP traffic with bursts and the case of not greedy TCP connections. The models for SAP-LAW are totally new. The comparison is performed in terms of different performance indices including average queue length, system throughput, and expected waiting time. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper studies the rate control algorithm to improve the performance of semi-TCP, which adopts a buffer-based hop-by-hop congestion control mechanism. By analyzing the impact of the buffer-based sending strategy on the medium contention and interference, we find that this sending strategy is too aggressive to increase the throughput, which leads to severe contention and interference in the channel. Extensive simulations are then carried out and reveal the significance of the channel status of the first hop in rate control. Based on the findings in the simulations, we propose a binary search-based rate control to improve semi-TCP using only local information. The proposed rate control relies on the media status in the first hop to adjust the source rate to approach the peak throughput, without the assistance of end-to-end feedback. Simulation results show the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm in improving the end-to-end throughput and delay. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]