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// Copyright (c) 2015 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.
#include "quic/core/congestion_control/cubic_bytes.h"
#include <algorithm>
#include <cmath>
#include <cstdint>
#include "quic/core/quic_constants.h"
#include "quic/core/quic_packets.h"
#include "quic/platform/api/quic_flag_utils.h"
#include "quic/platform/api/quic_flags.h"
#include "quic/platform/api/quic_logging.h"
namespace quic {
namespace {
// Constants based on TCP defaults.
// The following constants are in 2^10 fractions of a second instead of ms to
// allow a 10 shift right to divide.
const int kCubeScale = 40; // 1024*1024^3 (first 1024 is from 0.100^3)
// where 0.100 is 100 ms which is the scaling
// round trip time.
const int kCubeCongestionWindowScale = 410;
// The cube factor for packets in bytes.
const uint64_t kCubeFactor =
(UINT64_C(1) << kCubeScale) / kCubeCongestionWindowScale / kDefaultTCPMSS;
const float kDefaultCubicBackoffFactor = 0.7f; // Default Cubic backoff factor.
// Additional backoff factor when loss occurs in the concave part of the Cubic
// curve. This additional backoff factor is expected to give up bandwidth to
// new concurrent flows and speed up convergence.
const float kBetaLastMax = 0.85f;
} // namespace
CubicBytes::CubicBytes(const QuicClock* clock)
: clock_(clock),
num_connections_(kDefaultNumConnections),
epoch_(QuicTime::Zero()) {
ResetCubicState();
}
void CubicBytes::SetNumConnections(int num_connections) {
num_connections_ = num_connections;
}
float CubicBytes::Alpha() const {
// TCPFriendly alpha is described in Section 3.3 of the CUBIC paper. Note that
// beta here is a cwnd multiplier, and is equal to 1-beta from the paper.
// We derive the equivalent alpha for an N-connection emulation as:
const float beta = Beta();
return 3 * num_connections_ * num_connections_ * (1 - beta) / (1 + beta);
}
float CubicBytes::Beta() const {
// kNConnectionBeta is the backoff factor after loss for our N-connection
// emulation, which emulates the effective backoff of an ensemble of N
// TCP-Reno connections on a single loss event. The effective multiplier is
// computed as:
return (num_connections_ - 1 + kDefaultCubicBackoffFactor) / num_connections_;
}
float CubicBytes::BetaLastMax() const {
// BetaLastMax is the additional backoff factor after loss for our
// N-connection emulation, which emulates the additional backoff of
// an ensemble of N TCP-Reno connections on a single loss event. The
// effective multiplier is computed as:
return (num_connections_ - 1 + kBetaLastMax) / num_connections_;
}
void CubicBytes::ResetCubicState() {
epoch_ = QuicTime::Zero(); // Reset time.
last_max_congestion_window_ = 0;
acked_bytes_count_ = 0;
estimated_tcp_congestion_window_ = 0;
origin_point_congestion_window_ = 0;
time_to_origin_point_ = 0;
last_target_congestion_window_ = 0;
}
void CubicBytes::OnApplicationLimited() {
// When sender is not using the available congestion window, the window does
// not grow. But to be RTT-independent, Cubic assumes that the sender has been
// using the entire window during the time since the beginning of the current
// "epoch" (the end of the last loss recovery period). Since
// application-limited periods break this assumption, we reset the epoch when
// in such a period. This reset effectively freezes congestion window growth
// through application-limited periods and allows Cubic growth to continue
// when the entire window is being used.
epoch_ = QuicTime::Zero();
}
QuicByteCount CubicBytes::CongestionWindowAfterPacketLoss(
QuicByteCount current_congestion_window) {
// Since bytes-mode Reno mode slightly under-estimates the cwnd, we
// may never reach precisely the last cwnd over the course of an
// RTT. Do not interpret a slight under-estimation as competing traffic.
if (current_congestion_window + kDefaultTCPMSS <
last_max_congestion_window_) {
// We never reached the old max, so assume we are competing with
// another flow. Use our extra back off factor to allow the other
// flow to go up.
last_max_congestion_window_ =
static_cast<int>(BetaLastMax() * current_congestion_window);
} else {
last_max_congestion_window_ = current_congestion_window;
}
epoch_ = QuicTime::Zero(); // Reset time.
return static_cast<int>(current_congestion_window * Beta());
}
QuicByteCount CubicBytes::CongestionWindowAfterAck(
QuicByteCount acked_bytes,
QuicByteCount current_congestion_window,
QuicTime::Delta delay_min,
QuicTime event_time) {
acked_bytes_count_ += acked_bytes;
if (!epoch_.IsInitialized()) {
// First ACK after a loss event.
QUIC_DVLOG(1) << "Start of epoch";
epoch_ = event_time; // Start of epoch.
acked_bytes_count_ = acked_bytes; // Reset count.
// Reset estimated_tcp_congestion_window_ to be in sync with cubic.
estimated_tcp_congestion_window_ = current_congestion_window;
if (last_max_congestion_window_ <= current_congestion_window) {
time_to_origin_point_ = 0;
origin_point_congestion_window_ = current_congestion_window;
} else {
time_to_origin_point_ = static_cast<uint32_t>(
cbrt(kCubeFactor *
(last_max_congestion_window_ - current_congestion_window)));
origin_point_congestion_window_ = last_max_congestion_window_;
}
}
// Change the time unit from microseconds to 2^10 fractions per second. Take
// the round trip time in account. This is done to allow us to use shift as a
// divide operator.
int64_t elapsed_time =
((event_time + delay_min - epoch_).ToMicroseconds() << 10) /
kNumMicrosPerSecond;
// Right-shifts of negative, signed numbers have implementation-dependent
// behavior, so force the offset to be positive, as is done in the kernel.
uint64_t offset = std::abs(time_to_origin_point_ - elapsed_time);
QuicByteCount delta_congestion_window = (kCubeCongestionWindowScale * offset *
offset * offset * kDefaultTCPMSS) >>
kCubeScale;
const bool add_delta = elapsed_time > time_to_origin_point_;
DCHECK(add_delta ||
(origin_point_congestion_window_ > delta_congestion_window));
QuicByteCount target_congestion_window =
add_delta ? origin_point_congestion_window_ + delta_congestion_window
: origin_point_congestion_window_ - delta_congestion_window;
// Limit the CWND increase to half the acked bytes.
target_congestion_window =
std::min(target_congestion_window,
current_congestion_window + acked_bytes_count_ / 2);
DCHECK_LT(0u, estimated_tcp_congestion_window_);
// Increase the window by approximately Alpha * 1 MSS of bytes every
// time we ack an estimated tcp window of bytes. For small
// congestion windows (less than 25), the formula below will
// increase slightly slower than linearly per estimated tcp window
// of bytes.
estimated_tcp_congestion_window_ += acked_bytes_count_ *
(Alpha() * kDefaultTCPMSS) /
estimated_tcp_congestion_window_;
acked_bytes_count_ = 0;
// We have a new cubic congestion window.
last_target_congestion_window_ = target_congestion_window;
// Compute target congestion_window based on cubic target and estimated TCP
// congestion_window, use highest (fastest).
if (target_congestion_window < estimated_tcp_congestion_window_) {
target_congestion_window = estimated_tcp_congestion_window_;
}
QUIC_DVLOG(1) << "Final target congestion_window: "
<< target_congestion_window;
return target_congestion_window;
}
} // namespace quic