On making SCTP robust to spurious retransmissions

Computer Communication Review

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 123-135

  Ladha, Sourabh ^a   Baucke, Stephan ^b   Ludwig, Reiner ^b   Amer, Paul D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^b ERICSSON RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DSACK-BASED ALGORITHM; EIFEL ALGORITHM; RETRANSMISSIONS;

ALGORITHMS; BANDWIDTH; COMPUTER NETWORKS; CONGESTION CONTROL (COMMUNICATION); NETWORK PROTOCOLS; PROBLEM SOLVING;

TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 33645760477     PISSN: 01464833     EISSN: 01464833     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/997150.997161     Document Type: Review

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