Title :
On the impact of concurrent downloads
Author :
Liu, Yong ; Gong, Weibo ; Shenoy, Prashant
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Massachusetts Univ., Amherst, MA, USA
Abstract :
Concurrent downloads accelerate information access speed for individual Web users. The speed-up comes from multiple connections launched for one subject download, which leads to unfairness at user level. We study the impact of concurrent downloads on the network. Particularly, we investigate the fairness between users who employ different downloading concurrency. We also discuss how concurrent downloads affect the transient behavior of the network
Keywords :
Internet; concurrency theory; telecommunication congestion control; telecommunication traffic; transients; Internet traffic; Web traffic; concurrent downloads; congestion control; fairness; information access speed; network transient behavior; Acceleration; Bandwidth; Concurrent computing; Delay; IP networks; Network servers; Telecommunication traffic; Throughput; Web pages; Web server;
Conference_Titel :
Simulation Conference, 2001. Proceedings of the Winter
Conference_Location :
Arlington, VA
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-7307-3
DOI :
10.1109/WSC.2001.977449
