An improved method for experimental evaluations of TCP Congestion Control Algorithms

Benchmarks are a vital part of most of the performed research activity. Internet is an extremely complex internetwork composed of many smaller but still complex networks based on the Internet Protocol (IP). Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) is the most common protocol for IP networks and one of the toughest to perform realistic tests on. It is assumed that it is impossible to emulate all of Internet’s behavior under lab conditions and thus accurate benchmarking and testing of TCP consists a difficult task. We present a review of existing tools that are being used for evaluating TCP Congestion Control Algorithms. We also include a new method for performing detailed benchmarks of TCP Congestion Control Algorithms. The paper presents a custom made utility with more abilities than existing tools and a set of scripts for automating benchmarks and graphing collected data