Limitations of equation-based congestion control

IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 852-865

  Rhee, Injong ^a   Xu, Lisong ^b  

^a North Carolina State University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

Congestion control; Equation based rate control

Indexed keywords

COMPETING FLOWS; CONGESTION CONTROL; CONGESTION CONTROL PROTOCOLS; DELAY ESTIMATIONS; EQUATION-BASED RATE CONTROL; EXTREME CASE; RATE ESTIMATIONS; RETRANSMISSION TIMEOUTS; SENDING RATES; TCP FLOWS; TCP-FRIENDLY; TCP-FRIENDLY RATE CONTROLS;

IMAGE CODING; THROUGHPUT; VIDEO SIGNAL PROCESSING;

TRANSMISSION CONTROL PROTOCOL;

EID: 42949093159     PISSN: 10636692     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNET.2007.893883     Document Type: Article

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