Performance implications of a bounded receive buffer in concurrent multipath transfer

Computer Communications

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 818-829

  Iyengar, Janardhan R ^a   Amer, Paul D ^b   Stewart, Randall ^c  

^a The Holleran Center for Community Action and Public Policy   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^c CISCO SYSTEMS   (United States)

Author keywords

Concurrent multipath transfer; Load balancing; Multihoming; SCTP; Transport layer; Transport protocol

Indexed keywords

CONCURRENT MULTIPATH TRANSFER (CMT); LOAD BALANCING; MULTIHOMING; TRANSPORT LAYERS; TRANSPORT PROTOCOLS;

BUFFER STORAGE; MULTIPATH PROPAGATION; NETWORK PROTOCOLS;

DATA TRANSFER;

EID: 33846622714     PISSN: 01403664     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.comcom.2006.10.011     Document Type: Article

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