The dynamics of responsiveness and smoothness in heterogeneous networks

IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 1178-1189

  Tsaoussidis, Vassilis ^a   Zhang, Chi ^b  

^a DEMOCRITUS UNIVERSITY OF THRACE   (Greece)

^b Florida International University   (United States)

Author keywords

Congestion control; Fairness; Transmission control protocol (TCP) friendly protocols

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CHANNEL CAPACITY; ELECTRONIC MAIL; ERROR ANALYSIS; INTERNET; MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; QUEUEING NETWORKS; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

CONGESTION CONTROL; FAIRNESS; ROUND TRIP TIME; TRANSMISSION CONTROL PROTOCOL (TCP)-FRIENDLY PROTOCOLS;

NETWORK PROTOCOLS;

EID: 20844455801     PISSN: 07338716     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSAC.2005.845627     Document Type: Article

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