A survey on TCP-friendly congestion control.

New trends in communication, in particular the deployment of multicast and real-time audio/video streaming applications, are likely to increase the percentage of non-TCP traffic in the Internet. These applications rarely perform congestion control in a TCP-friendly manner; they do not share the avai...

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Published in:	IEEE Network : the magazine of global information exchange 15, 3 (2001).
Main Author:	Widmer, J.
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Subjects:	FTP. Internet. TCP traffic starvation. TCP-friendly congestion control. TCP-friendly protocols. Web browsers. Bandwidth sharing. Congestion collapse. E-mail clients. Multicast communication. Multicast congestion control protocols. NonTCP traffic. Real-time audio/video streaming. Unicast congestion control protocols.