Modeling TCP Reno performance: A simple model and its empirical validation

IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 133-145

  Padhye, Jitendra ^b   Firoiu, Victor ^c   Towsley, Donald F ^a,b   Kurose, James F ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b Biologically Inspired Neural and Dynamical Systems Laboratory   (United States)

^c NORTEL NETWORKS   (United States)

Author keywords

Empirical validation; Modeling; Retransmission timeouts; TCP

Indexed keywords

EID: 0242292632     PISSN: 10636692     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/90.842137     Document Type: Article

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