2000/01/07 by Stefaan De Cnodder, De Cnodder, Stefaan, Omar Elloumi +3
Computer Science · Engineering · #Advanced Wireless Network Optimization #C.2.1 #FOS: Computer and information sciences #Network Traffic and Congestion Control #Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI) #Wireless Communication Networks Research #cs.NI
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.cs/0001005
Effect of different packet size on RED performance number of pages: 9 Submitted to IEEE Communication Letters
arxiv created 2000/01/07 · openalex publication_date 2000/01/07 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
We consider the adaptation of random early detection (RED) as an active queue management algorithm for TCP traffic in Internet gateways where different maximum transfer units (MTUs) are used. We studied the two existing RED variants and point out a weakness in both. The first variant where the drop probability is independent from the packet size discriminates connections with smaller MTUs. The second variant results in a very high Packet Loss Ratio (PLR), and as a consequence low goodput, for connections with higher MTUs. We show that fairness in terms of loss and goodput can be supplied through an appropriate setting of the RED algorithm.