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
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