Providing proportional TCP performance by fixed-point approximations over bandwidth on demand satellite networks

IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications

Volumn 8, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 3554-3565

  Chai, Wei Koong ^a   Karaliopoulos, Merkourios ^b   Pavlou, George ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

BoD GEO satellite networks, proportional differentiated services, TCP, fixed point, proxy agents.

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL METHOD; ANALYTICAL TOOL; BANDWIDTH ON DEMAND; CLASS-BASED; FIXED-POINT APPROXIMATION; GEO SATELLITES; JOINT CONFIGURATION; MAC SCHEDULER; MEDIUM ACCESS CONTROL LAYER; MEDIUM SYSTEM; NETWORK TRAFFIC; PERFORMANCE ENHANCING PROXY; PREDICTIVE CAPACITY; PROPORTIONAL DIFFERENTIATED SERVICE; PROXY AGENTS; SATELLITE NETWORK; SATELLITE OPERATORS; SERVICE DIFFERENTIATION; TCP FLOWS; TCP PERFORMANCE; TRAFFIC LOADS; TRANSPORT LAYERS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; GEOSTATIONARY SATELLITES; MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS; MEDIUM ACCESS CONTROL; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; SATELLITE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; SCHEDULING ALGORITHMS; TELECOMMUNICATION SERVICES; TRANSMISSION CONTROL PROTOCOL; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

INTERNET PROTOCOLS;

EID: 74549137257     PISSN: 15361276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TWC.2009.071395     Document Type: Article

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