A measurement study on TCP behaviors in HSPA+ networks on high-speed rails

Proceedings - IEEE INFOCOM

Volumn 26, Issue , 2015, Pages 2731-2739

  Li, Li ^a,b   Xu, Ke ^a,b   Wang, Dan ^c,d   Peng, Chunyi ^e   Xiao, Qingyang ^a,b   Mijumbi, Rashid ^f  

^a TSINGHUA NATIONAL LABORATORY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

^d The Hong Kong Polytechnic University Shenzhen Research Institute   (Hong Kong)

^e Ohio State University   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERNET PROTOCOLS; PACKET LOSS; QUALITY OF SERVICE; RAILROAD CARS; RAILROAD TRANSPORTATION; RAILROADS; SPEED;

ABNORMAL BEHAVIOR; CONGESTION WINDOW; HIGH SPEED TRAIN (HST); MEASUREMENT DATA; MEASUREMENT STUDY; PERFORMANCE METRICS; PROTOCOLS AND WIRELESS; TRANSPORT PROTOCOLS;

TRANSMISSION CONTROL PROTOCOL;

EID: 84954200233     PISSN: 0743166X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/INFOCOM.2015.7218665     Document Type: Conference Paper

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