A comparison of TCP behaviour at high speeds using ns-2 and Linux

Proceedings of the 11th Communications and Networking Simulation Symposium, CNS'08

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 30-37

  Bateman, Martin ^a   Bhatti, Saleem ^a   Bigwood, Greg ^a   Rehunathan, Devan ^a   Allison, Colin ^a   Henderson, Tristan ^a   Miras, Dimitrios ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Fairness; High speed; Ns 2; TCP; Testbed

Indexed keywords

AVAILABLE CAPACITY; CONGESTION CONTROL ALGORITHM; EXPERIMENTAL TESTBED; FAIRNESS; HAMILTONS; HIGH-SPEED; NEWRENO; NS-2; NS-2 SIMULATIONS; REAL NETWORKS; TCP; TCP VARIANTS;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; SPEED; TEST FACILITIES; TESTBEDS; TRANSMISSION CONTROL PROTOCOL;

INTERNET PROTOCOLS;

EID: 70249131491     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1400713.1400718     Document Type: Conference Paper

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