Tuning RED for Web traffic.

We study the effects of RED on the performance of Web browsing with a novel aspect of our work being the use of a user-centric measure of performance: response time for HTTP request-response pairs. We empirically evaluate RED across a range of parameter settings and offered loads. Our results show t...

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Published in:	Computer communication review. 30, 4 (2000).
Main Author:	Christiansen, Mikkel
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Subjects:	Computer systems organization. Performance of systems. Performance attributes. Computer communication networks. Network protocols. Applications (SMTP, FTP, etc.). Network operations. Local and wide area networks. Ethernet (e.g., CSMA/CD). Internetworking. Routers. Design studies. Information systems. Information storage and retrieval. Design. Experimentation. Management. Measurement. Performance. Theory.