Demystifying and mitigating TCP stalls at the server side

Proceedings of the 11th ACM Conference on Emerging Networking Experiments and Technologies, CoNEXT 2015

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages

  Zhou, Jianer ^a,b   Wu, Qinghua ^a,b   Li, Zhenyu ^a   Uhlig, Steve ^c   Steenkiste, Peter ^c   Chen, Jian ^c   Xie, Gaogang ^a  

^a ICT of CAS   (China)

^b University of CAS   (China)

^c QMUL ^*  (China)

Author keywords

Congestion control; Measurement; Performance troubleshooting; TCP

Indexed keywords

CONGESTION CONTROL (COMMUNICATION); MEASUREMENTS;

INTERNET APPLICATION; NOCV2; PERCEIVED PERFORMANCE; RESEARCH COMMUNITIES; RETRANSMISSIONS; SERVICE PROVIDER; SOFTWARE DOWNLOADS; TCP PERFORMANCE; TIMEOUT RETRANSMISSION;

TRANSMISSION CONTROL PROTOCOL;

EID: 84995745477     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2716281.2836094     Document Type: Conference Paper

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