The TIME-WAIT state in TCP and its effect on busy servers

Proceedings - IEEE INFOCOM

Volumn 3, Issue , 1999, Pages 1573-1583

  Faber, Theodore ^a   Touch, Joe ^a   Yue, Wei ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONNECTION RATES; MEMORY LOAD; MEMORY REQUIREMENTS; NETWORK SERVICES; OFF-LOADING; PERSISTENT CONNECTION; SERVER MEMORY;

HTTP; TRANSMISSION CONTROL PROTOCOL; BANDWIDTH; BUFFER STORAGE; CLIENT SERVER COMPUTER SYSTEMS; CONGESTION CONTROL (COMMUNICATION); INTERNET; RESPONSE TIME (COMPUTER SYSTEMS); STORAGE ALLOCATION (COMPUTER); TELECOMMUNICATION TRAFFIC; THROUGHPUT;

LOADING; NETWORK PROTOCOLS;

PER-CONNECTION MEMORY LOADING; PER-TRANSACTION METHODS;

EID: 0032685835     PISSN: 0743166X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/INFCOM.1999.752180     Document Type: Conference Paper

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