Improving explicit congestion notification with the mark-front strategy

Computer Networks

Volumn 35, Issue 2-3, 2001, Pages 185-201

  Liu, Chunlei ^a   Jain, Raj ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Buffer size requirement; Congestion control; Explicit congestion notification; Fairness; Mark front

Indexed keywords

EID: 0346404160     PISSN: 13891286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1389-1286(00)00167-5     Document Type: Article

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