Difficulties in simulating the Internet

IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 392-403

  Floyd, Sally ^a,b   Paxson, Vern ^b  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b INTERNATIONAL COMPUTER SCIENCE INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Internet; Modeling; Simulation

Indexed keywords

SIMULATION PARAMETER SPACES;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONGESTION CONTROL (COMMUNICATION); NETWORK PROTOCOLS; TELECOMMUNICATION LINKS; TELECOMMUNICATION TRAFFIC;

INTERNET;

EID: 0035416013     PISSN: 10636692     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/90.944338     Document Type: Article

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