IDTCP: An effective approach to mitigating the TCP incast problem in data center networks

Information Systems Frontiers

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 35-44

  Wang, Guodong ^a,b   Ren, Yongmao ^b   Dou, Ke ^a,b   Li, Jun ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Congestion control; Data center networks; TCP incast

Indexed keywords

CONGESTION CONTROL (COMMUNICATION); INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

ANALYSIS AND SIMULATION; DATA CENTER NETWORKS; DATA CENTERS; EFFECTIVE APPROACHES; ROOT CAUSE; TCP THROUGHPUT; TCP-INCAST; WINDOW SIZE;

COMPUTER NETWORKS;

EID: 84898015631     PISSN: 13873326     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10796-013-9463-4     Document Type: Article

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