A mean-field model for multiple TCP connections through a buffer implementing RED

Performance Evaluation

Volumn 49, Issue 1-4, 2002, Pages 77-97

  Baccelli, F ^a   McDonald, D R ^b   Reynier, J ^a  

^a ECOLE NORMALE SUPÉRIEURE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Dynamical systems; Mean field; RED; TCP

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONGESTION CONTROL (COMMUNICATION); DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MULTIPLEXING; PACKET NETWORKS; PROBABILITY; ROUTERS; THROUGHPUT;

DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS; MEAN-FIELD MODELS; RANDOM EARLY DETECTION (RED); TCP; TRANSMISSION CONTROL PROTOCOL (TCP);

NETWORK PROTOCOLS;

EID: 1642312988     PISSN: 01665316     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-5316(02)00136-0     Document Type: Conference Paper

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