On the predictability of large transfer TCP throughput

Computer Networks

Volumn 51, Issue 14, 2007, Pages 3959-3977

  He, Qi ^a   Dovrolis, Constantinos ^a   Ammar, Mostafa ^a  

^a Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

Network measurements; Performance evaluation; TCP throughput; Time series forecasting

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER NETWORKS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

NETWORK MEASUREMENTS; PERFORMANCE EVALUATION; RESILIENT OVERLAY NETWORK (RON); TCP THROUGHPUT; TIME SERIES FORECASTING;

TRANSMISSION CONTROL PROTOCOL;

EID: 34547184958     PISSN: 13891286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.comnet.2007.04.013     Document Type: Article

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