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10.2. New-TCP Suitability Study 252<br />

Internet<br />

Dedicated<br />

(sole)<br />

Dedicated<br />

(shared)<br />

Tier-0 to<br />

Tier-1<br />

FAST<br />

H-TCP<br />

Tier-1 to<br />

Tier-2<br />

Tier-2 to<br />

Tier-3/4<br />

H-TCP<br />

FAST<br />

BicTCP<br />

FAST<br />

H-TCP<br />

FAST<br />

H-TCP<br />

Table 10.1: Overview of Recommended New-TCP algorithms for different Tiers<br />

based upon the type of end-to-end connection.<br />

H-TCP will have distinct advantages, whilst with large buffer provisioning,<br />

the RTT fairness of H-TCP becomes better.<br />

10.2.5 Summary<br />

Table 10.1 summarises the recommended New-TCP algorithm for use in each<br />

application area. Generally, FAST <strong>and</strong> H-TCP are the recommended New-<br />

TCP algorithms for use for the majority of the LHC MONARC design.<br />

However, it should be noted that FAST is only recommended where sufficient<br />

network buffering is available. Across multi-domain network paths<br />

such as that of the Internet, such tuning may not be possible; especially<br />

when there are a large number of FAST TCP flows. This also applies to dedicated<br />

network paths - depending upon who supplies the dedicated circuit<br />

this tuning may not be possible.<br />

BicTCP, whilst maintaining very unfriendly <strong>and</strong> relatively long (<strong>and</strong> hence<br />

undesirable) convergence times, does provide high throughput with relatively

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