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CC_HD(4) Kernel Interfaces Manual CC_HD(4) NAME cc_hd -- HD Congestion Control Algorithm DESCRIPTION The HD congestion control algorithm is an implementation of the Hamil- ton Institute's delay-based congestion control which aims to keep net- work queuing delays below a particular threshold (queue_threshold). HD probabilistically reduces the congestion window (cwnd) based on its estimate of the network queuing delay. The probability of reducing cwnd is zero at hd_qmin or less, rising to a maximum at queue_thresh- old, and then back to zero at the maximum queuing delay. Loss-based congestion control algorithms such as NewReno probe for net- work capacity by filling queues until there is a packet loss. HD com- petes with loss-based congestion control algorithms by allowing its probability of reducing cwnd to drop from a maximum at queue_threshold to be zero at the maximum queuing delay. This has been shown to work well when the bottleneck link is highly multiplexed. MIB Variables The algorithm exposes the following tunable variables in the net.inet.tcp.cc.hd branch of the sysctl(3) MIB: queue_threshold Queueing congestion threshold (qth) in ticks. Default is 20. pmax Per packet maximum backoff probability as a percent- age. Default is 5. qmin Minimum queuing delay threshold (qmin) in ticks. De- fault is 5. SEE ALSO cc_cdg(4), cc_chd(4), cc_cubic(4), cc_dctcp(4), cc_htcp(4), cc_newreno(4), cc_vegas(4), h_ertt(4), mod_cc(4), tcp(4), khelp(9), mod_cc(9) L. Budzisz, R. Stanojevic, R. Shorten, and F. Baker, "A strategy for fair coexistence of loss and delay-based congestion control algorithms", IEEE Commun. Lett., 7, 13, 555-557, Jul 2009. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Development and testing of this software were made possible in part by grants from the FreeBSD Foundation and Cisco University Research Pro- gram Fund at Community Foundation Silicon Valley. FUTURE WORK The Hamilton Institute have recently made some improvements to the al- gorithm implemented by this module and have called it Coexistent-TCP (C-TCP). The improvements should be evaluated and potentially incorpo- rated into this module. HISTORY The cc_hd congestion control module first appeared in FreeBSD 9.0. The module was first released in 2010 by David Hayes whilst working on the NewTCP research project at Swinburne University of Technology's Centre for Advanced Internet Architectures, Melbourne, Australia. More details are available at: http://caia.swin.edu.au/urp/newtcp/ AUTHORS The cc_hd congestion control module and this manual page were written by David Hayes <david.hayes@ieee.org>. FreeBSD 15.0 May 13, 2021 CC_HD(4)
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