ACP+: An Age Control Protocol for the Internet

We present the age control protocol ACP+, a transport layer protocol that regulates the rate at which update packets carrying information from a source are sent over the Internet to a monitor. The source would like to minimize the average age of information at the monitor. Extensive experimentation...

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Published in:IEEE/ACM transactions on networking Vol. 32; no. 4; pp. 3253 - 3268
Main Authors: Shreedhar, Tanya, Kaul, Sanjit K., Yates, Roy D.
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: IEEE 01.08.2024
Subjects:
age
Age control protocol
congestion control
Delays
freshness
Internet
Internet of Things
Internet Protocols
Monitoring
Protocols
Throughput
Wireless communication
Wireless fidelity
ISSN:1063-6692, 1558-2566
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Abstract We present the age control protocol ACP+, a transport layer protocol that regulates the rate at which update packets carrying information from a source are sent over the Internet to a monitor. The source would like to minimize the average age of information at the monitor. Extensive experimentation helps shed light on age control over the current Internet and its implications for sources sending updates over a shared wireless access to monitors in the cloud. Surprisingly, age minimizing rates over fast Internet paths are about 0.5 Mbps, which is a small fraction, for example, of link rates supported by WiFi wireless access technology. We also show that congestion control algorithms employed by the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP), including hybrid approaches that achieve higher throughputs at lower delays than traditional loss-based congestion control, are unsuitable for age control.
AbstractList We present the age control protocol ACP+, a transport layer protocol that regulates the rate at which update packets carrying information from a source are sent over the Internet to a monitor. The source would like to minimize the average age of information at the monitor. Extensive experimentation helps shed light on age control over the current Internet and its implications for sources sending updates over a shared wireless access to monitors in the cloud. Surprisingly, age minimizing rates over fast Internet paths are about 0.5 Mbps, which is a small fraction, for example, of link rates supported by WiFi wireless access technology. We also show that congestion control algorithms employed by the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP), including hybrid approaches that achieve higher throughputs at lower delays than traditional loss-based congestion control, are unsuitable for age control.
Author Kaul, Sanjit K.
Yates, Roy D.
Shreedhar, Tanya
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