Discrete event fluid modeling of background TCP traffic

ACM Transactions on Modeling and Computer Simulation

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 211-250

  Nicol, David M ^a,c   Yan, Guanhua ^b,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b DARTMOUTH COLLEGE   (United States)

^c University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

^d Dartmouth College   (United States)

Author keywords

TCP; Traffic modeling

Indexed keywords

SWITCHING MODELS; TCP; TRAFFIC MODELING; TRANSPORT LAYER PROTOCOL (TCP);

ALGORITHMS; BANDWIDTH; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISCRETE TIME CONTROL SYSTEMS; FLUID DYNAMICS; INTERNET; MULTICASTING; PACKET NETWORKS; TELECOMMUNICATION TRAFFIC;

NETWORK PROTOCOLS;

EID: 17044435120     PISSN: 10493301     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1010621.1010622     Document Type: Article

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