Effects of asymmetry on TCP performance

Mobile Networks and Applications

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 219-241

  Balakrishnan, Hari ^a,b   Padmanabhan, Venkata N ^a,b,c   Katz, Randy H ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY DELHI   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONGESTION CONTROL (COMMUNICATION); MOBILE RADIO SYSTEMS; PACKET NETWORKS; RADIO LINKS; TELECOMMUNICATION TRAFFIC; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

TRANSMISSION CONTROL PROTOCOL (TCP);

NETWORK PROTOCOLS;

EID: 0033358957     PISSN: 1383469X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1019155000496     Document Type: Article

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