Blanton and Allman (2002) On Making TCP More Robust to Packet Reordering (CCR)
Packet reordering is a negative effect to TCP performance because:
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Kandula et al (2007) Dynamic Load Balancing without Packet Reordering (CCR)
Packets out of order came from rerouting a flow from a slow path to a fast path. And the amount of packets out of order is proportional to the delay differential.
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Komattireddy and Vokkarane (2007) Source-Ordering for Improved TCP Performance over Load-Balanced Optical Burst-Switched (OBS) Networks (BROADNETS)
In OBS network, all-optical switching is done. It is possible to have multipath in the network but when a TCP flow switched from a path to another, packet out of order may occur and that make TCP (Reno) mistook as loss. The solution proposed in this paper is that, because...
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Santos et al (2003) End-to-End Congestion Control for InifiBand (INFOCOM)
Because InfiniBand switch are input-buffered, there would be the case that a victim flow choked when some other flow caused a congestion. An example would be, switch A has a flow to switch B port 1 which this port is oversubscribed, and hence congested. Switch A has another flow to...
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Katabi et al (2002) Congestion Control for High Bandwidth-Delay Product Networks (SIGCOMM)
The paper that proposed XCP (Explicit Control Protocol). The idea about XCP is to get routers involved in the congestion control so that efficiency and fairness can be maintained more precisely.
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