TCP Vegas new techniques for congestion detection and avoidance.

TCP Vegas new techniques for congestion detection and avoidance.

Vegas is a new implementation of TCP that achieves between 40 and 70% better throughput, with one-fifth to one-half the losses, as compared to the implementation of TCP in the Reno distribution of BSD Unix. This paper motivates and describes the three key techniques employed by Vegas, and presents t...

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Bibliographic Details
Published in:Computer communication review. 24, 4 (1994).
Main Author: Brakmo, Lawrence S.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Software.
Operating systems.
UNIX.
Computer systems organization.
Computer communication networks.
Performance of systems.
Measurement of techniques.
Design.
Experimentation.
Measurement.
Performance.