Improving TCP smoothness by synchronized and measurement-based congestion avoidance

Proceedings of the International Workshop on Network and Operating System Support for Digital Audio and Video

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 131-140

  Zhang, Chi ^a   Tsaoussidis, Vassilis ^a  

^a NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

AIMD; Congestion Control; Fairness; Real time Applications; Responsiveness; Smoothness; TCP friendly Protocols

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; CONGESTION CONTROL (COMMUNICATION); NETWORK PROTOCOLS; THROUGHPUT;

REAL-TIME APPLICATIONS;

TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORKS;

EID: 0038041108     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/776322.776343     Document Type: Conference Paper

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