How I Learned to Stop Worrying About CCA Contention
Lloyd Brown, Yash Kothari, Akshay Narayan, Arvind Krishnamurthy, Aurojit Panda, Justine Sherry, and Scott Shenker
In Proceedings of the 22nd ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks , , Cambridge, MA, USA, , Nov 2023
This paper asks whether inter-flow contention between congestion control algorithms (CCAs) is a dominant factor in determining a flow’s bandwidth allocation in today’s Internet. We hypothesize that CCA contention typically does not determine a flow’s bandwidth allocation, present an initial analysis in support of this hypothesis, propose a measurement technique and study to settle this question, and discuss the implications should the hypothesis prove true.