DocumentCode
1706292
Title
A note on the fairness of TCP Vegas
Author
Boutremans, Catherine ; Boudec, Jean-Yves Le
Author_Institution
Inst. for Comput. Commun. & Applications, Swiss Federal Inst. of Technol., Lausanne, Switzerland
fYear
2000
fDate
6/22/1905 12:00:00 AM
Firstpage
163
Lastpage
170
Abstract
This paper shows that TCP Vegas´ fairness critically requires an accurate estimation of propagation delay. We also show that, in practice, this may be difficult to achieve and we discuss how to choose the parameters α and β that control the window sizes´ update
Keywords
delay estimation; telecommunication congestion control; transport protocols; TCP Vegas; congestion control; fairness; propagation delay estimation; update control; window size; Application software; Bandwidth; Computer applications; Delay estimation; Independent component analysis; Loss measurement; Propagation delay; Size control; Throughput; Time measurement;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Broadband Communications, 2000. Proceedings. 2000 International Zurich Seminar on
Conference_Location
Zurich
Print_ISBN
0-7803-5977-1
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/IZSBC.2000.829247
Filename
829247
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