Providing Differentiated Service to TCP Flows Over Bandwidth on Demand Geostationary Satellite Networks

IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 333-347

  Karaliopoulos, Merkourios ^a   Tafazolli, Rahim ^a   Evans, Barry G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bandwidth on demand (BoD); Fixed point; Geosynchronous earth orbit (GEO) satellite networks; Media access control (MAC); Split connections; Transmission control protocol (TCP)

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BANDWIDTH; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GEOSTATIONARY SATELLITES; INTERNET; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; ORBITS; QUALITY OF SERVICE; TELECOMMUNICATION TRAFFIC;

BANDWIDTH ON DEMAND (BOD); FIXED POINTS; GEOSYNCHRONOUS EARTH ORBITS (GEO); MEDIA ACCESS CONTROL (MAC); SPLIT CONNECTIONS; TRANSMISSION CONTROL PROTOCOLS (TCP);

COMMUNICATION SATELLITES;

EID: 1342308200     PISSN: 07338716     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSAC.2003.819983     Document Type: Article

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