Explicit rate multicast congestion control

Computer Networks

Volumn 50, Issue 15, 2006, Pages 2614-2640

  Li, Jiang ^a,b   Yuksel, Murat ^a,b   Kalyanaraman, Shivkumar ^a,b  

^a RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b HOWARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Congestion control; Drop to zero; Feedback suppression; Multicast; Single rate; TCP friendliness; Throughput rate at congestion (TRAC)

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER NETWORKS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEEDBACK; MULTICASTING; PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

DROP-TO-ZERO; FEEDBACK SUPPRESSION; MULTICAST; SINGLE-RATE; TCP FRIENDLINESS; THROUGHPUT RATE AT CONGESTION (TRAC);

CONGESTION CONTROL (COMMUNICATION);

EID: 33746659076     PISSN: 13891286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.comnet.2005.09.026     Document Type: Article

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