TCP ROCCET: An RTT-Oriented CUBIC Congestion Control Extension for 5G and Beyond Networks
Lukas Prause, Mark Akselrod

TL;DR
This paper introduces TCP ROCCET, a latency-aware extension of TCP CUBIC designed for 5G networks, which reduces latency and bufferbloat while maintaining throughput, addressing limitations of existing congestion control algorithms.
Contribution
The paper proposes TCP ROCCET, a novel RTT-oriented congestion control extension for TCP CUBIC, improving latency and buffer management in 5G cellular networks.
Findings
TCP ROCCET reduces latency and bufferbloat compared to standard CUBIC.
ROCCET achieves similar throughput to TCP BBRv3 with lower latency.
Evaluation in real 5G networks confirms ROCCET's effectiveness under various conditions.
Abstract
The behavior of loss-based TCP congestion control algorithms like TCP CUBIC continues to be a challenge in modern cellular networks. Due to the large RLC layer buffers required to deal with short-term changes in channel capacity, the behavior of both the Slow Start and congestion avoidance phases may be heavily impacted by the lack of packet losses and the resulting bufferbloat. While existing congestion control algorithms like TCP BBR do tend to perform better even in the presence of large bottleneck buffers, they still tend to fill the buffer more than necessary and can have fairness issues when compared to loss-based algorithms. In this paper, we analyze the issues with the use of loss-based congestion control algorithms by analyzing TCP CUBIC, which is currently the most popular variant. To mitigate the issues experienced by TCP CUBIC in cellular networks, we introduce TCP ROCCET,…
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