An enhanced congestion avoidance mechanism for TCP Vegas

IEEE Communications Letters

Volumn 7, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 343-345

  Chan, Yi Cheng ^a   Chan, Chia Tai ^b   Chen, Yaw Chung ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b CHUNGHWA TELECOM CO LTD   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Congestion avoidance; TCP vegas; Transport protocol

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER NETWORKS; CONGESTION CONTROL (COMMUNICATION); TELECOMMUNICATION TRAFFIC; THROUGHPUT;

CONGESTION AVOIDANCE;

NETWORK PROTOCOLS;

EID: 0041590960     PISSN: 10897798     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LCOMM.2003.814715     Document Type: Article

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