TCP revisited: A fresh look at TCP in the wild

Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM Internet Measurement Conference, IMC

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 76-89

  Qian, Feng ^a   Gerber, Alexandre ^b   Mao, Z Morley ^a   Sen, Subhabrata ^b   Spatscheck, Oliver ^b   Willinger, Walter ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b AT AND T LABS RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Network measurement; TCP

Indexed keywords

CONGESTION WINDOW; INTERNET BACKBONE; NETWORK MEASUREMENT; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; RAPID DEPLOYMENTS; RETRANSMISSION BEHAVIOR; STREAMING APPLICATIONS; TCP;

INTERNET;

CLOCKS;

EID: 84877759883     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1644893.1644903     Document Type: Conference Paper

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