1 menu "DCCP CCIDs Configuration (EXPERIMENTAL)"
2 depends on EXPERIMENTAL
5 tristate "CCID2 (TCP-Like) (EXPERIMENTAL)"
9 CCID 2, TCP-like Congestion Control, denotes Additive Increase,
10 Multiplicative Decrease (AIMD) congestion control with behavior
11 modelled directly on TCP, including congestion window, slow start,
12 timeouts, and so forth [RFC 2581]. CCID 2 achieves maximum
13 bandwidth over the long term, consistent with the use of end-to-end
14 congestion control, but halves its congestion window in response to
15 each congestion event. This leads to the abrupt rate changes
16 typical of TCP. Applications should use CCID 2 if they prefer
17 maximum bandwidth utilization to steadiness of rate. This is often
18 the case for applications that are not playing their data directly
19 to the user. For example, a hypothetical application that
20 transferred files over DCCP, using application-level retransmissions
21 for lost packets, would prefer CCID 2 to CCID 3. On-line games may
22 also prefer CCID 2. See RFC 4341 for further details.
24 CCID2 is the default CCID used by DCCP.
26 config IP_DCCP_CCID2_DEBUG
27 bool "CCID2 debugging messages"
28 depends on IP_DCCP_CCID2
30 Enable CCID2-specific debugging messages.
32 When compiling CCID2 as a module, this debugging output can
33 additionally be toggled by setting the ccid2_debug module
39 tristate "CCID3 (TCP-Friendly) (EXPERIMENTAL)"
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_TFRC_LIB
67 depends on IP_DCCP_CCID3
68 def_tristate IP_DCCP_CCID3
70 config IP_DCCP_CCID3_DEBUG
71 bool "CCID3 debugging messages"
72 depends on IP_DCCP_CCID3
74 Enable CCID3-specific debugging messages.
76 When compiling CCID3 as a module, this debugging output can
77 additionally be toggled by setting the ccid3_debug module
82 config IP_DCCP_CCID3_RTO
83 int "Use higher bound for nofeedback timer"
85 depends on IP_DCCP_CCID3 && EXPERIMENTAL
87 Use higher lower bound for nofeedback timer expiration.
89 The TFRC nofeedback timer normally expires after the maximum of 4
90 RTTs and twice the current send interval (RFC 3448, 4.3). On LANs
91 with a small RTT this can mean a high processing load and reduced
92 performance, since then the nofeedback timer is triggered very
95 This option enables to set a higher lower bound for the nofeedback
96 value. Values in units of milliseconds can be set here.
98 A value of 0 disables this feature by enforcing the value specified
99 in RFC 3448. The following values have been suggested as bounds for
101 * 16-20ms to match the typical multimedia inter-frame interval
102 * 100ms as a reasonable compromise [default]
103 * 1000ms corresponds to the lower TCP RTO bound (RFC 2988, 2.4)
105 The default of 100ms is a compromise between a large value for
106 efficient DCCP implementations, and a small value to avoid disrupting
107 the network in times of congestion.
109 The purpose of the nofeedback timer is to slow DCCP down when there
110 is serious network congestion: experimenting with larger values should
111 therefore not be performed on WANs.