TCP Westwood with adaptive bandwidth estimation to improve efficiency/friendliness tradeoffs

Computer Communications

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 41-58

  Gerla, M ^a   Ng, B K F ^a   Sanadidi, M Y ^a   Valla, M ^a   Wang, R ^a  

^a Engineering IV   (United States)

Author keywords

Bandwidth estimation; Congestion control; Efficiency friendliness tradeoffs; TCP westwood

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BANDWIDTH; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONGESTION CONTROL (COMMUNICATION); PACKET NETWORKS; THROUGHPUT;

BANDWIDTH ESTIMATOR; PACKET LOSSES; TRANSMISSION CONTROL PROTOCOL (TCP);

NETWORK PROTOCOLS;

EID: 0346962805     PISSN: 01403664     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-3664(03)00114-2     Document Type: Article

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