How many parallel TCP sessions to open: a pricing perspective

Bruno Tuffin (1) , Patrick Maillé (1)

1 RSM - Département Réseaux, Sécurité et Multimédia

TCP is one of the main transmission protocols used in the Internet. It has also been recently observed that opening parallel TCP sessions might be of interest for a user in order to increase his overall average throughput. We suggest in this paper to charge users per TCP session, and we investigate the resulting game in a homogeneous context: how many sessions should each user open? Given the discrete (and even finite) space of strategies, we propose to implement a probabilistic adaptation algorithm, analyze its theoretical properties and provide numerical illustrations.

Domaines: Multimédia [cs.MM]; Réseaux et télécommunications [cs.NI]

Bruno Tuffin, Patrick Maillé. How many parallel TCP sessions to open: a pricing perspective. 5th international workshop on Internet Charging and QoS Technology, Jun 2006, Saint Malo, France. ⟨hal-02367492⟩