Data Center TCP (DCTCP)

Computer Communication Review

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 63-74

  Alizadeh, Mohammad ^a,b   Greenberg, Albert ^a   Maltz, David A ^a   Padhye, Jitendra ^a   Patel, Parveen ^a   Prabhakar, Balaji ^b   Sengupta, Sudipta ^a   Sridharan, Murari ^a  

^a MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Data center network; ECN; TCP

Indexed keywords

BACKGROUND TRAFFIC; BUFFER SPACE; CLOUD DATA CENTERS; DATA CENTER NETWORKS; DATA CENTERS; DIVERSE APPLICATIONS; ECN; EXPLICIT CONGESTION NOTIFICATION; LIMITED BUFFER SPACES; LOW LATENCY; MEASUREMENTS OF; MULTI-BIT FEEDBACK; TCP; TCP PROTOCOL;

COMMUNICATION;

TRANSMISSION CONTROL PROTOCOL;

EID: 84874672256     PISSN: 01464833     EISSN: 19435819     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1851275.1851192     Document Type: Conference Paper

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