A hands-on assessment of transport protocols with lower than best effort priority

Proceedings - Conference on Local Computer Networks, LCN

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 8-15

  Carofiglio, Giovanna ^a   Muscariello, Luca ^b   Rossi, Dario ^c   Testa, Claudio ^c  

^a LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

^b ORANGE LABS   (France)

^c TELECOM PARISTECH   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARBITRARY LEVELS; BEST EFFORT; BITTORRENT; CONGESTION CONTROL ALGORITHM; MAIN PARAMETERS; MISCONFIGURATIONS; NETWORK CONDITION; NEW PROTOCOL; PACKET LEVEL SIMULATION; PERFORMANCE COMPARISON; TRANSPORT PROTOCOLS; TRANSPORT SERVICES;

ALGORITHMS; INTERNET; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

TRANSMISSION CONTROL PROTOCOL;

EID: 79955024464     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/LCN.2010.5735831     Document Type: Conference Paper

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