A remedy for performance degradation of tcp vegas in asymmetric networks

IEEE Communications Letters

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 42-44

  Fu, Cheng P ^a   Liew, Soung C ^a  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Asymmetric networks; Congestion control; TCP Vegas

Indexed keywords

CONGESTION CONTROL (COMMUNICATION); DATA TRANSFER; INTERNET; PACKET NETWORKS; QUEUEING NETWORKS;

ASYMMETRIC NETWORKS;

NETWORK PROTOCOLS;

EID: 0037252886     PISSN: 10897798     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LCOMM.2002.805544     Document Type: Article

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