ICTCP: Incast Congestion Control for TCP in data center networks

By Haitao Wu, Zhenqian Feng, Chuanxiong Guo, Yongguang Zhang. Conference on Emerging Network Experiment and Technology, 2010

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Sharing the Data Center Network (2011, methodology): “System design is simpliﬁed [44, 40, 30], since fair shares can be computed solely from information about edge congestion, without any topology information or congestion feedback from the core.”
Data Center Network Virtualization: A Survey (2013, background): “One particular challenge in data center environment is the TCP incast collapse problem [65], where simultaneous arrival of packets from a large number of short flows can overflow the buffer in network switches, resulting in significant increase in network delay.”
Fastpass (2014, background): “Current solutions are approximations of full control, based on estimates and assumptions about request RTTs, and solve the problem only partially [28, 37].”
Finishing flows quickly with preemptive scheduling (2012, methodology): “TCP, RCP [10], ICTCP [22], and DCTCP [3] approximate fair sharing, dividing link bandwidth equally among .ows.”
RDMA over Commodity Ethernet at Scale (2016, background): “They either tune the retransmission timer (as in [35]), or control the TCP receiving window ([39]), or tune the ECN parameter ([38]).”