RAP: An end-to-end rate-based congestion control mechanism for realtime streams in the Internet

Proceedings - IEEE INFOCOM

Volumn 3, Issue , 1999, Pages 1337-1345

  Rejaie, Reza ^a   Handley, Mark ^a   Estrin, Deborah ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONGESTION COLLAPSE; END-TO-END CONGESTION CONTROL; EXTENSIVE SIMULATIONS; INTERNET TRAFFIC; NETWORK CONGESTION CONTROL; NEW APPLICATIONS; RATE ADAPTATION; RATE-BASED CONGESTION CONTROL; REAL-TIME APPLICATION; REAL-TIME STREAMS; RED QUEUE; TCP TRAFFIC; TCP-FRIENDLY; UNICAST;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER HARDWARE DESCRIPTION LANGUAGES; CONGESTION CONTROL (COMMUNICATION); INTERNET; MULTICASTING; TRANSMISSION CONTROL PROTOCOL; ADAPTIVE ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; QUEUEING THEORY; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; TELECOMMUNICATION TRAFFIC;

TRAFFIC CONGESTION; INTERNET;

ADDITIVE-INCREASE MULTIPLICATIVE-DECREASE (AIMD) ALGORITHMS; END-TO-END RATE-BASED CONGESTION CONTROL METHODS; RATE ADAPTATION PROTOCOLS (RAP);

EID: 0032623864     PISSN: 0743166X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/INFCOM.1999.752152     Document Type: Conference Paper

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