REFWA: An efficient and fair congestion control scheme for LEO satellite networks

IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1031-1044

  Taleb, Tarik ^a   Kato, Nei ^a   Nemoto, Yoshiaki ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Congestion control; Fairness; Receiver's advertised window adjustment; Satellite networks; TCP

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONGESTION CONTROL (COMMUNICATION); FREQUENCY ALLOCATION; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; TELECOMMUNICATION LINKS; TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORKS; TELECOMMUNICATION TRAFFIC;

MULTI-HOPS SATELLITE NETWORKS; RECEIVER'S ADVERTISED WINDOW ADJUSTMENT; RECURSIVE, EXPLICIT, AND FAIR WINDOW ADJUSTMENT (REFWA);

SATELLITE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 33750297380     PISSN: 10636692     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNET.2006.883130     Document Type: Article

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