linux/net/dccp/ccids/Kconfig
Andrea Bittau 2a91aa3967 [DCCP] CCID2: Initial CCID2 (TCP-Like) implementation
Original work by Andrea Bittau, Arnaldo Melo cleaned up and fixed several
issues on the merge process.

For now CCID2 was turned the default for all SOCK_DCCP connections, but this
will be remedied soon with the merge of the feature negotiation code.

Signed-off-by: Andrea Bittau <a.bittau@cs.ucl.ac.uk>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-03-20 17:41:47 -08:00

63 lines
2.4 KiB
Plaintext

menu "DCCP CCIDs Configuration (EXPERIMENTAL)"
depends on IP_DCCP && EXPERIMENTAL
config IP_DCCP_CCID2
tristate "CCID2 (TCP) (EXPERIMENTAL)"
depends on IP_DCCP
select IP_DCCP_ACKVEC
---help---
CCID 2, TCP-like Congestion Control, denotes Additive Increase,
Multiplicative Decrease (AIMD) congestion control with behavior
modelled directly on TCP, including congestion window, slow start,
timeouts, and so forth [RFC 2581]. CCID 2 achieves maximum
bandwidth over the long term, consistent with the use of end-to-end
congestion control, but halves its congestion window in response to
each congestion event. This leads to the abrupt rate changes
typical of TCP. Applications should use CCID 2 if they prefer
maximum bandwidth utilization to steadiness of rate. This is often
the case for applications that are not playing their data directly
to the user. For example, a hypothetical application that
transferred files over DCCP, using application-level retransmissions
for lost packets, would prefer CCID 2 to CCID 3. On-line games may
also prefer CCID 2.
CCID 2 is further described in:
http://www.icir.org/kohler/dccp/draft-ietf-dccp-ccid2-10.txt
This text was extracted from:
http://www.icir.org/kohler/dccp/draft-ietf-dccp-spec-13.txt
If in doubt, say M.
config IP_DCCP_CCID3
tristate "CCID3 (TFRC) (EXPERIMENTAL)"
depends on IP_DCCP
---help---
CCID 3 denotes TCP-Friendly Rate Control (TFRC), an equation-based
rate-controlled congestion control mechanism. TFRC is designed to
be reasonably fair when competing for bandwidth with TCP-like flows,
where a flow is "reasonably fair" if its sending rate is generally
within a factor of two of the sending rate of a TCP flow under the
same conditions. However, TFRC has a much lower variation of
throughput over time compared with TCP, which makes CCID 3 more
suitable than CCID 2 for applications such streaming media where a
relatively smooth sending rate is of importance.
CCID 3 is further described in:
http://www.icir.org/kohler/dccp/draft-ietf-dccp-ccid3-11.txt.
The TFRC congestion control algorithms were initially described in
RFC 3448.
This text was extracted from:
http://www.icir.org/kohler/dccp/draft-ietf-dccp-spec-13.txt
If in doubt, say M.
config IP_DCCP_TFRC_LIB
depends on IP_DCCP_CCID3
def_tristate IP_DCCP_CCID3
endmenu