• DocumentCode
    1213104
  • Title

    FAST TCP: from theory to experiments

  • Author

    Jin, Cheng ; Wei, David ; Low, Steven H. ; Bunn, Julian ; Choe, Hyojeong D. ; Doylle, J.C. ; Newman, Harvey ; Ravot, Sylvain ; Singh, Suresh ; Paganini, Fernando ; Buhrmaster, Gary ; Cottrell, Les ; Martin, Olivier ; Feng, Wu-chun

  • Author_Institution
    Caltech, Pasadena, CA, USA
  • Volume
    19
  • Issue
    1
  • fYear
    2005
  • Firstpage
    4
  • Lastpage
    11
  • Abstract
    We describe a variant of TCP, called FAST, that can sustain high throughput and utilization at multigigabits per second over large distances. We present the motivation, review the background theory, summarize key features of FAST TCP, and report our first experimental results.
  • Keywords
    telecommunication congestion control; telecommunication traffic; transport protocols; FAST TCP; background traffic; congestion control algorithm; queueing delay; transport control protocol; Algorithm design and analysis; Artificial intelligence; Current measurement; Delay estimation; Iterative algorithms; Laboratories; Linear accelerators; Loss measurement; Stability; Throughput;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Network, IEEE
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0890-8044
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/MNET.2005.1383434
  • Filename
    1383434