The power of explicit congestion notification

Computer Communication Review

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 61-72

  Kuzmanovic, Aleksandar ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Active queue management; Congestion control; Explicit congestion notification

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE QUEUE MANAGEMENT; CONGESTION CONTROL; EXPLICIT CONGESTION NOTIFICATION (ECN); EXPLICIT CONGESTION NOTIFICATION; INTERNET COMMUNITIES; LARGE SCALE SIMULATIONS; NETWORK MEASUREMENT; NETWORK PROVIDER; PERFORMANCE BENEFITS; PRACTICAL RECOMMENDATION;

ALGORITHMS; INTERNET; PACKET NETWORKS; QUEUEING NETWORKS; SECURITY OF DATA; SYSTEM STABILITY; TELECOMMUNICATION TRAFFIC; COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; CONGESTION CONTROL (COMMUNICATION); NETWORK ARCHITECTURE; SPECIFICATIONS; TRANSMISSION CONTROL PROTOCOL; WEB SERVICES;

CHANNEL CAPACITY; INTERNET PROTOCOLS;

EID: 33847279990     PISSN: 01464833     EISSN: 01464833     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1090191.1080100     Document Type: Conference Paper

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