| Techreport |
| Type of Publication |
| A Survey on TCP-Friendly Congestion Control (extended
version) |
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| Authors |
| Technical Report TR-01-002, Department for Mathematics and Computer Science,
University of Mannheim, February 2001 |
| Published in |
| New trends in communication, in particular
the deployment of multicast and real-time audio/video streaming
applications, are likely to increase the percentage of non-TCP
traffic in the Internet. These applications rarely perform
congestion control in a TCP-friendly manner, i.e., they do not
share the available bandwidth fairly with applications built on
TCP, such as web browsers, FTP- or email-clients. The Internet
community strongly fears that the current evolution could lead to
a congestion collapse and starvation of TCP traffic. For this
reason, TCP-friendly protocols are being developed that behave
fairly with respect to co-existent TCP flows. In this article, we
present a survey of current approaches to TCP-friendliness and
discuss their characteristics. Both unicast and multicast
congestion control protocols are examined, and an evaluation of
the different approaches is presented. |
| Abstract |
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congestion control
TCP-friendliness
TCP
multicast
fairness
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