Evaluation of advanced TCP stacks on fast long-distance production networks

Journal of Grid Computing

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 345-359

  Bullot, Hadrien ^a   Cottrell, R Les ^b   Hughes Jones, Richard ^c  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b SLAC NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Advanced TCP; High speed network; Networking; System evaluation; System measurement

Indexed keywords

10 GBPS; ADVANCED TCP; DATA CENTERS; DATA INTENSIVE; FAST TCP; NETWORK CONFIGURATION; NETWORK PATHS; NETWORKING; PARALLEL STREAMS; PRODUCTION NETWORK; REMOTE COMPUTERS; REMOTE SITES; ROUND-TRIP TIME; SYSTEM EVALUATION; SYSTEM MEASUREMENT; TCP STACKS; TCP STREAMS; WINDOW SIZE;

HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS; HIGH SPEED NETWORKS; NETWORK PERFORMANCE; OPTIMIZATION;

TRANSMISSION CONTROL PROTOCOL;

EID: 84867187276     PISSN: 15707873     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:GRID.0000037555.53402.4f     Document Type: Article

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