Using partial differential equations to model TCP mice and elephants in large IP networks

IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 1289-1301

  Marsan, Marco Ajmone ^a   Garetto, Michele ^a   Giaccone, Paolo ^a   Leonardi, Emilio ^a   Schiattarella, Enrico ^a   Tarello, Alessandro ^a  

^a POLITECNICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Computer network performance; Differential equations; Modeling; Transport protocol; Wide area networks

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER NETWORKS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; PROBABILITY; WIDE AREA NETWORKS;

COMPUTER NETWORK PERFORMANCE; IP NETWORKS; TRANSPORT PROTOCOL;

INTERNET;

EID: 29844453615     PISSN: 10636692     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNET.2005.860102     Document Type: Article

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