Concurrent multipath transfer using SCTP: Modelling and congestion window management

IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing

Volumn 13, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 2510-2523

  Wallace, T Daniel ^a   Shami, Abdallah ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

concurrent multipath transfer; Multihoming; stream control transmission protocol

Indexed keywords

CONCURRENT MULTIPATH TRANSFERS; CONGESTION WINDOW; MULTI-HOMING; STREAM CONTROL TRANSMISSION PROTOCOLS;

EID: 84907833406     PISSN: 15361233     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMC.2014.2307330     Document Type: Article

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