Performance sensitivity and fairness of ECN-aware 'modified TCP'

Performance Evaluation

Volumn 53, Issue 3-4, 2003, Pages 255-272

  Misra, A ^a   Ott, T ^b  

^a IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b University Heights   (United States)

Author keywords

Best effort; ECN; Fairness; Performance; TCP; Utilization

Indexed keywords

NETWORK PROTOCOLS; PERFORMANCE; TELECOMMUNICATION TRAFFIC;

EXPLICIT CONGESTION NOTIFICATION (ECN);

INTERNET;

EID: 0037715411     PISSN: 01665316     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-5316(03)00065-8     Document Type: Conference Paper

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