Binary increase congestion control (BIC) for fast long-distance networks

Proceedings - IEEE INFOCOM

Volumn 4, Issue , 2004, Pages 2514-2524

  Xu, Lisong ^a   Harfoush, Khaled ^a   Rhee, Injong ^a  

^a North Carolina State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Congestion control; High speed networks; Protocol Design; RTT unfairness; Scalability; TCP friendliness

Indexed keywords

HIGH-SPEED NETWORKS; PROTOCOL DESIGN; ROUND TRIP TIME (RTT); RTT UNFAIRNESS; SCALABILITY; TCP FRIENDLINESS;

BANDWIDTH; BIT ERROR RATE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONGESTION CONTROL (COMMUNICATION); NETWORK PROTOCOLS; PACKET NETWORKS; ROUTERS;

WIDE AREA NETWORKS;

EID: 8344260601     PISSN: 0743166X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/INFCOM.2004.1354672     Document Type: Conference Paper

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