An argument for increasing TCP's initial congestion window

Computer Communication Review

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 26-33

  Dukkipati, Nandita ^a   Refice, Tiziana ^a   Cheng, Yuchung ^a   Chu, Jerry ^a   Herbert, Tom ^a   Agarwal, Amit ^a   Jain, Arvind ^a   Sutin, Natalia ^a  

^a GOOGLE INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Congestion Control; Internet Measurements; TCP; Web Latency

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH DELAY PRODUCT; BENEFITS AND COSTS; CONGESTION CONTROL; CONGESTION WINDOW; GLOBAL NETWORKS; INTERNET EXPERIMENTS; INTERNET MEASUREMENTS; LOW-BANDWIDTH; NETWORK BANDWIDTH; RETRANSMISSIONS; ROUND-TRIP-TIME; SLOW START; STANDARD VALUES; TCP; TCP FLOWS; WEB LATENCY; WEB TRANSACTIONS;

EXPERIMENTS; HTTP; INTERNET;

TRANSMISSION CONTROL PROTOCOL;

EID: 78649851406     PISSN: 01464833     EISSN: 01464833     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1823844.1823848     Document Type: Conference Paper

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