Short and fat: TCP performance in CEE datacenter networks

Proceedings - Symposium on the High Performance Interconnects, Hot Interconnects

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 43-50

  Crisan, Daniel ^a   Anghel, Andreea S ^a   Birke, Robert ^a   Minkenberg, Cyriel ^a   Gusat, Mitch ^a  

^a IBM RESEARCH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONGESTION MANAGEMENT; DATA CENTERS; FREEBSD; LAYER 2; LOSSLESS; NETWORK SIMULATORS; PARAMETER SETTING; PERFORMANCE EVALUATION; SCIENTIFIC APPLICATIONS; TCP PERFORMANCE;

ETHERS; NETWORK LAYERS;

TRANSMISSION CONTROL PROTOCOL;

EID: 80555153899     PISSN: 15504794     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/HOTI.2011.16     Document Type: Conference Paper

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