Measuring End-to-End Bulk Transfer Capacity

Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM Internet Measurement Workshop

Volumn , Issue , 2001, Pages 139-143

  Allman, Mark ^a  

^a NASA GLENN RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Bandwidth Measurement; Bulk Transfer Capacity; Congestion Control; TCP

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BANDWIDTH; COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS; DATA TRANSFER; FAILURE ANALYSIS; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; PROBLEM SOLVING; RELIABILITY; SCHEDULING;

BANDWIDTH MEASUREMENT; BULK TRANSFER CAPACITY; TCP;

CONGESTION CONTROL (COMMUNICATION);

EID: 0042673433     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/505217.505220     Document Type: Conference Paper

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