Improving TCP fairness and performance with bulk transmission control over lossy wireless channel

Computer Networks

Volumn 53, Issue 16, 2009, Pages 2767-2781

  Lee, Jongmin ^a   Cha, Hojung ^a   Ha, Rhan ^b  

^a Yonsei University   (South Korea)

^b Hong Ik University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Burst transmissions; Congestion control; Fairness; TCP; Throughput

Indexed keywords

BURST TRANSMISSIONS; CONGESTION CONTROL; CONGESTION WINDOW; FAIRNESS; IN-NETWORK; LINUX PLATFORM; NET WORK UTILIZATION; NETWORK BANDWIDTH; PACKET LOSS RATES; PRACTICAL USE; REAL ENVIRONMENTS; ROUND-TRIP TIME; SHARED NETWORK; SHORT PACKETS; TCP; TCP CONGESTION CONTROL; TCP CONGESTION CONTROL MECHANISMS; TCP FAIRNESS; TCP VARIANTS; TRANSMISSION BEHAVIOR; TRANSMISSION CONTROL; TRANSMISSION PERFORMANCE; WIRELESS CHANNEL;

BANDWIDTH; COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS; MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; PACKET LOSS; TRANSMISSION CONTROL PROTOCOL; TRANSMISSIONS; WINDOWS;

WIRELESS NETWORKS;

EID: 70349810952     PISSN: 13891286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.comnet.2009.06.009     Document Type: Article

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