Equation-based congestion control for unicast applications.

This paper proposes a mechanism for equation-based congestion control for unicast traffic. Most best-effort traffic in the current Internet is well-served by the dominant transport protocol, TCP. However, traffic such as best-effort unicast streaming multimedia could find use for a TCP-friendly cong...

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Publié dans:	Computer communication review. 30, 4 (2000).
Auteur principal:	Floyd, Sally
Format:	Article
Langue:	English
Sujets:	Computing methodologies. Artificial intelligence. Problem Solving, Control Methods, and Search. Control theory. Computer systems organization. Computer communication networks. Network protocols. TCP IP. Local and wide area networks. Internet (e.g., TCP/IP). Algorithms. Design. Experimentation. Measurement. Performance. Reliability. Standardization. Theory.