cc_newreno — NewReno Congestion Control Algorithm
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Acknowledgements
Development and testing of this software were made possible in part by grants from the FreeBSD Foundation
and Cisco University Research Program Fund at Community Foundation Silicon Valley.
Description
The NewReno congestion control algorithm is the default for TCP. Details about the algorithm can be
found in RFC5681.
History
The cc_newreno congestion control algorithm first appeared in its modular form in FreeBSD 9.0.
The module was first released in 2007 by James Healy and Lawrence Stewart whilst working on the NewTCP
research project at Swinburne University of Technology's Centre for Advanced Internet Architectures,
Melbourne, Australia, which was made possible in part by a grant from the Cisco University Research
Program Fund at Community Foundation Silicon Valley. More details are available at:
http://caia.swin.edu.au/urp/newtcp/Mib Variables
The algorithm exposes these variables in the net.inet.tcp.cc.newreno branch of the sysctl(3) MIB:
beta Multiplicative window decrease factor, specified as a percentage, applied to the congestion
window in response to a congestion signal per: cwnd = (cwnd * beta) / 100. Default is 50.
beta_ecn Multiplicative window decrease factor, specified as a percentage, applied to the congestion
window in response to an ECN congestion signal when net.inet.tcp.cc.abe=1 per: cwnd = (cwnd *
beta_ecn) / 100. Default is 80.
Name
cc_newreno — NewReno Congestion Control Algorithm
See Also
cc_chd(4), cc_cubic(4), cc_hd(4), cc_htcp(4), cc_vegas(4), mod_cc(4), tcp(4), mod_cc(9) Mark Allman, Vern Paxson, and Ethan Blanton, TCPCongestionControl, RFC 5681. Naeem Khademi, Michael Welzl, Grenville Armitage, and Gorry Fairhurst, TCPAlternativeBackoffwithECN(ABE), RFC 8511.
Socket Options
The cc_newreno module supports a number of socket options under TCP_CCALGOOPT (refer to tcp(4) and
moc_cc(9) for details) which can be set with setsockopt(2) and tested with getsockopt(2). The cc_newreno
socket options use this structure defined in <sys/netinet/cc/cc_newreno.h>:
struct cc_newreno_opts {
int name;
uint32_t val;
}
CC_NEWRENO_BETA Multiplicative window decrease factor, specified as a percentage, applied to the
congestion window in response to a congestion signal per: cwnd = (cwnd *
CC_NEWRENO_BETA) / 100. Default is 50.
CC_NEWRENO_BETA_ECN Multiplicative window decrease factor, specified as a percentage, applied to the
congestion window in response to an ECN congestion signal when net.inet.tcp.cc.abe=1
per: cwnd = (cwnd * CC_NEWRENO_BETA_ECN) / 100. Default is 80.
Synopsis
#include<netinet/cc/cc_newreno.h>
