1 menu "DCCP CCIDs Configuration (EXPERIMENTAL)"
2 depends on EXPERIMENTAL
5 tristate "CCID2 (TCP-Like) (EXPERIMENTAL)"
8 CCID 2, TCP-like Congestion Control, denotes Additive Increase,
9 Multiplicative Decrease (AIMD) congestion control with behavior
10 modelled directly on TCP, including congestion window, slow start,
11 timeouts, and so forth [RFC 2581]. CCID 2 achieves maximum
12 bandwidth over the long term, consistent with the use of end-to-end
13 congestion control, but halves its congestion window in response to
14 each congestion event. This leads to the abrupt rate changes
15 typical of TCP. Applications should use CCID 2 if they prefer
16 maximum bandwidth utilization to steadiness of rate. This is often
17 the case for applications that are not playing their data directly
18 to the user. For example, a hypothetical application that
19 transferred files over DCCP, using application-level retransmissions
20 for lost packets, would prefer CCID 2 to CCID 3. On-line games may
21 also prefer CCID 2. See RFC 4341 for further details.
23 CCID2 is the default CCID used by DCCP.
25 config IP_DCCP_CCID2_DEBUG
26 bool "CCID2 debugging messages"
27 depends on IP_DCCP_CCID2
29 Enable CCID2-specific debugging messages.
31 When compiling CCID2 as a module, this debugging output can
32 additionally be toggled by setting the ccid2_debug module
38 tristate "CCID3 (TCP-Friendly) (EXPERIMENTAL)"
40 select IP_DCCP_TFRC_LIB
42 CCID 3 denotes TCP-Friendly Rate Control (TFRC), an equation-based
43 rate-controlled congestion control mechanism. TFRC is designed to
44 be reasonably fair when competing for bandwidth with TCP-like flows,
45 where a flow is "reasonably fair" if its sending rate is generally
46 within a factor of two of the sending rate of a TCP flow under the
47 same conditions. However, TFRC has a much lower variation of
48 throughput over time compared with TCP, which makes CCID 3 more
49 suitable than CCID 2 for applications such streaming media where a
50 relatively smooth sending rate is of importance.
52 CCID 3 is further described in RFC 4342,
53 http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4342.txt
55 The TFRC congestion control algorithms were initially described in
58 This text was extracted from RFC 4340 (sec. 10.2),
59 http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4340.txt
61 To compile this CCID as a module, choose M here: the module will be
66 config IP_DCCP_CCID3_DEBUG
67 bool "CCID3 debugging messages"
68 depends on IP_DCCP_CCID3
70 Enable CCID3-specific debugging messages.
72 When compiling CCID3 as a module, this debugging output can
73 additionally be toggled by setting the ccid3_debug module
78 config IP_DCCP_CCID3_RTO
79 int "Use higher bound for nofeedback timer"
81 depends on IP_DCCP_CCID3 && EXPERIMENTAL
83 Use higher lower bound for nofeedback timer expiration.
85 The TFRC nofeedback timer normally expires after the maximum of 4
86 RTTs and twice the current send interval (RFC 3448, 4.3). On LANs
87 with a small RTT this can mean a high processing load and reduced
88 performance, since then the nofeedback timer is triggered very
91 This option enables to set a higher lower bound for the nofeedback
92 value. Values in units of milliseconds can be set here.
94 A value of 0 disables this feature by enforcing the value specified
95 in RFC 3448. The following values have been suggested as bounds for
97 * 16-20ms to match the typical multimedia inter-frame interval
98 * 100ms as a reasonable compromise [default]
99 * 1000ms corresponds to the lower TCP RTO bound (RFC 2988, 2.4)
101 The default of 100ms is a compromise between a large value for
102 efficient DCCP implementations, and a small value to avoid disrupting
103 the network in times of congestion.
105 The purpose of the nofeedback timer is to slow DCCP down when there
106 is serious network congestion: experimenting with larger values should
107 therefore not be performed on WANs.
109 config IP_DCCP_TFRC_LIB
113 config IP_DCCP_TFRC_DEBUG
115 depends on IP_DCCP_TFRC_LIB
116 default y if IP_DCCP_CCID3_DEBUG