Evaluation of router implementations for explicit congestion control schemes

Journal of Communications

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 197-204

  Hauger, Simon ^a   Scharf, Michael ^a   Kögel, Jochen ^a   Suriyajan, Chawapong ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

Author keywords

Evaluation; Explicit congestion control; Implementation; Measurements; Network processor

Indexed keywords

CONGESTION CONTROL; EVALUATION; EXPLICIT CONGESTION CONTROLS; EXPLICIT CONTROL PROTOCOLS; FAST PATH; HIGH-SPEED ROUTERS; NETWORK PROCESSOR; PACKET PROCESSING; PARALLEL PROCESSING; PROGRAMMABLE LOGIC; PROTOTYPE IMPLEMENTATIONS; RATE CONTROL PROTOCOLS; SYNCHRONIZATION MECHANISMS;

PACKET NETWORKS; QUEUEING NETWORKS; ROUTERS; SOFTWARE PROTOTYPING; SYNCHRONIZATION;

TRANSMISSION CONTROL PROTOCOL;

EID: 78651593690     PISSN: 17962021     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4304/jcm.5.3.197-204     Document Type: Article

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