Router buffer sizing revisited: The role of the output/input capacity ratio

Proceedings of 2007 ACM CoNEXT Conference - 3rd International Conference on Emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies, CoNEXT

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages

  Prasad, Ravi S ^a   Dovrolis, Constantine ^a   Thottan, Marina ^b  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUFFER SIZES; BUFFER SIZINGS; LOSS RATES; NETWORK LINKS; OPTIMAL BUFFERS; ROUTER BUFFERS; SLOW STARTS; TCP FLOWS; TCP PERFORMANCES; TCP THROUGHPUTS; TESTBED; TWO WAYS;

COMPUTER NETWORKS; EXPERIMENTS;

TRANSMISSION CONTROL PROTOCOL;

EID: 56749179322     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1364654.1364674     Document Type: Conference Paper

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