Towards experimental evaluation of explicit congestion control

Computer Networks

Volumn 53, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 1027-1039

  Zhang, Yueping ^a   Jain, Saurabh ^b   Loguinov, Dmitri ^c  

^a NEC LABORATORIES AMERICA   (United States)

^b CISCO SYSTEMS   (United States)

^c TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Congestion control; Explicit feedback; Linux experiment

Indexed keywords

CONGESTION CONTROL (COMMUNICATION); HETEROGENEOUS NETWORKS; LINUX; MAMMALS; TOPOLOGY;

COMMON PLATFORM; DIFFERENT PROTOCOLS; EXPERIMENTAL EVALUATION; EXPLICIT CONGESTION CONTROLS; EXPLICIT FEEDBACK; LINUX IMPLEMENTATION; NETWORK TOPOLOGY; SIMPLE TOPOLOGY;

FEEDBACK;

EID: 62149094733     PISSN: 13891286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.comnet.2008.12.004     Document Type: Article

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