36.1.5.0.6 Linux TCP

This agent runs TCP congestion control modules imported from Linux kernel. The agent generates simulation results that are consistent, in congestion window trajectory level, with the behavior of Linux hosts.

Simulation users can update or import new congestion control modules from Linux kernel source code for this agent. The Linux congestion control modules are compiled into the NS-2 binary. Users can select different congestion control algorithms, different congestion control module parameters, and different Linux TCP parameters for different instances of this agent. This agent supports SACK. A receiver that supports SACK is recommended to work with this agent. There is a tutorial for using this agent in [32].

The implementation of this agent loosely follows the Linux TCP packet processing routine and calls the congestion control source codes from Linux kernel to change congestion control related parameters (e.g. congestion window, slow start threshold and etc). The design and implementation details are described in [33].

To achieve simulation results close to Linux performance, this agent changes the default values of the following parameters according to the Linux parameters:

Agent/TCP/Linux set maxrto_ 120
Agent/TCP/Linux set ts_resetRTO_ true
Agent/TCP/Linux set delay_growth_ false