TCP congestion control with a misbehaving receiver.

In this paper, we explore the operation of TCP congestion control when the receiver can misbehave, as might occur with a greedy Web client. We first demonstrate that there are simple attacks that allow a misbehaving receiver to drive a standard TCP sender arbitrarily fast, without losing end-to-end...

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Published in:Computer communication review. 29, 5 (1999).
Main Author: Savage, Stefan
Format: Article
Language:English