Modified RED algorithm to improve the performance of web traffic

Abstract

Reducing the delay of web traffic has been an important issue in Internet works. However, it is difficult to reduce delay while improving throughput. This is because, in order to reduce delay queue size should be less but to improve throughput queue size should be more. In our modification, web traffic and ECN marked packets are dropped only when high congestion occurs at router. We propose a solution to improve response time as well as the number of packets transmitted of web traffic without affecting throughput of bottleneck link. We applied this solution to RED algorithm and tested the performance and efficiency of modified RED algorithm as compared to the original RED algorithm. © 2013 IEEE.