SDTCP: Towards datacenter TCP congestion control with SDN for IoT applications

Sensors (Switzerland)

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2017, Pages

  Lu, Yifei ^a,c   Ling, Zhen ^b,c   Zhu, Shuhong ^a   Tang, Ling ^a  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c Ministry of Education   (China)

Author keywords

Congestion control; Data center networks; Incast; IoT; SDN

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; BIG DATA; CONGESTION CONTROL (COMMUNICATION); TRANSMISSION CONTROL PROTOCOL;

CENTRALIZED CONTROL; DATA CENTER NETWORKS; INCAST; INTERNET OF THING (IOT); NETWORK CONGESTIONS; TCP CONGESTION CONTROL; TCP CONGESTION CONTROL MECHANISMS; THROUGHPUT COLLAPSE;

INTERNET OF THINGS;

EID: 85012070477     PISSN: 14248220     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/s17010109     Document Type: Article

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