// Copyright (c) 2012 The Chromium Authors. All rights reserved.
// Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style license that can be
// found in the LICENSE file.
//
// Cubic algorithm, helper class to TCP cubic.
// For details see http://netsrv.csc.ncsu.edu/export/cubic_a_new_tcp_2008.pdf.
#ifndef NET_QUIC_CONGESTION_CONTROL_CUBIC_H_
#define NET_QUIC_CONGESTION_CONTROL_CUBIC_H_
#include "base/basictypes.h"
#include "net/base/net_export.h"
#include "net/quic/quic_clock.h"
#include "net/quic/quic_time.h"
namespace net {
// TCP congestion window in QUIC is in packets, not bytes.
typedef uint32 QuicTcpCongestionWindow;
class NET_EXPORT_PRIVATE Cubic {
public:
explicit Cubic(const QuicClock* clock);
// Call after a timeout to reset the cubic state.
void Reset();
// Compute a new congestion window to use after a loss event.
// Returns the new congestion window in packets. The new congestion window is
// a multiplicative decrease of our current window.
QuicTcpCongestionWindow CongestionWindowAfterPacketLoss(
QuicTcpCongestionWindow current);
// Compute a new congestion window to use after a received ACK.
// Returns the new congestion window in packets. The new congestion window
// follows a cubic function that depends on the time passed since last
// packet loss.
QuicTcpCongestionWindow CongestionWindowAfterAck(
QuicTcpCongestionWindow current,
QuicTime::Delta delay_min);
protected:
// Calculates the cubic root using a table lookup followed by one Newton-
// Raphson iteration.
uint32 CubeRoot(uint64 a);
private:
static const QuicTime::Delta MaxCubicTimeInterval() {
return QuicTime::Delta::FromMilliseconds(30);
}
const QuicClock* clock_;
// Time when this cycle started, after last loss event.
QuicTime epoch_;
// Time when we updated last_congestion_window.
QuicTime last_update_time_;
// Last congestion window (in packets) used.
QuicTcpCongestionWindow last_congestion_window_;
// Max congestion window (in packets) used just before last loss event.
// Note: to improve fairness to other streams an additional back off is
// applied to this value if the new value is below our latest value.
QuicTcpCongestionWindow last_max_congestion_window_;
// Number of acked packets since the cycle started (epoch).
uint32 acked_packets_count_;
// TCP Reno equivalent congestion window in packets.
QuicTcpCongestionWindow estimated_tcp_congestion_window_;
// Origin point of cubic function.
QuicTcpCongestionWindow origin_point_congestion_window_;
// Time to origin point of cubic function in 2^10 fractions of a second.
uint32 time_to_origin_point_;
// Last congestion window in packets computed by cubic function.
QuicTcpCongestionWindow last_target_congestion_window_;
DISALLOW_COPY_AND_ASSIGN(Cubic);
};
} // namespace net
#endif // NET_QUIC_CONGESTION_CONTROL_CUBIC_H_