An efficient and fair explicit congestion control protocol for high bandwidth-delay product networks

Computer Communications

Volumn 32, Issue 7-10, 2009, Pages 1138-1147

  Wu, Hangxing ^a   Ren, Fengyuan ^b   Mu, Dejun ^c   Gong, Xianwu ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY BEIJING   (China)

^b TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c NORTHWESTERN POLYTECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d CHANG'AN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Congestion control; Fairness; High speed network

Indexed keywords

BOTTLENECK ROUTER; CALCULATION COST; COMPETING FLOW; CONGESTION CONTROL; CONGESTION WINDOW; CONVERGENCE SPEED; CONVERGENCE TIME; EXCELLENT PERFORMANCE; EXPLICIT CONGESTION CONTROLS; FAIRNESS; HIGH BANDWIDTH; NETWORK SCENARIO; NS-2 SIMULATIONS; OPTIMAL STATE; PACKET SIZE; PER-FLOW STATE; RISETIME; ROUND TRIP DELAY; TCP UNFAIRNESS; UNFAIRNESS PROBLEM;

HIGH SPEED NETWORKS; INTERNET; PACKET NETWORKS; QUEUEING NETWORKS; ROUTERS; SPEED; THROUGHPUT; TRAFFIC CONGESTION; TRANSMISSION CONTROL PROTOCOL;

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EID: 67349246084     PISSN: 01403664     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.comcom.2008.11.016     Document Type: Article

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