Managing TCP connections under persistent HTTP

Computer Networks

Volumn 31, Issue 11, 1999, Pages 1709-1723

  Cohen, Edith ^a   Kaplan, Haim ^a   Oldham, Jeffrey ^b  

^a AT AND T LABS RESEARCH   (United States)

^b Stanford University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIENT SERVER COMPUTER SYSTEMS; CONGESTION CONTROL (COMMUNICATION); DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; HTTP; TELECOMMUNICATION TRAFFIC;

TRANSMISSION CONTROL PROTOCOL (TCP);

WORLD WIDE WEB;

EID: 0033296972     PISSN: 13891286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1389-1286(99)00018-3     Document Type: Article

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