Abstract

A TCP flow is congestion responsive because it reduces its send window upon the appearance of congestion. An aggregate of nonpersistent TCP flows, however, may not be congestion responsive, depending on whether the flow (or session) arrival process reacts to congestion or not. In [...]

Abstract

Flow size based congestion control has the potential to improve user perceived Web performance due to the heavy tailed characteristic of file size distributions in the Web. After discussing the benefits and drawbacks of transport protocol and router based solutions for size based [...]

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The TCP congestion control protocol is mainly designed for bandwidth symmetric paths. As two-way asymmetric connections will probably become common case in the future with the widespread use of ADSL, satellites and other high-speed technologies, it is important to make sure that congestion [...]