Packet reordering is not pathological network behavior

IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 789-798

  Bennett, Jon C R ^a,b,c   Partridge, Craig ^a,d   Shectman, Nicholas ^d  

^a IEEE

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c RiverDelta Networks   (United States)

^d BBN TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONGESTION CONTROL (COMMUNICATION); INTERNET; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; PACKET SWITCHING; ROUTERS; TELECOMMUNICATION TRAFFIC;

PACKET REORDERING; TRANSMISSION CONTROL PROTOCOL (TCP);

PACKET NETWORKS;

EID: 0033326181     PISSN: 10636692     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/90.811445     Document Type: Article

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