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Scalable TCP Over Satellite Links: Performance Issues And Cross-Layer Design
White Papers This paper analyzes some issues related to the performance of a recently proposed TCP enhancement, Scalable TCP (S-TCP), over satellite links. Then, the paper analyzes the impact of S-TCP protocol parameters in a satellite environment, and provides...
[December 26, 2007, 23:00]
Traffic Analysis: From Stateful Firewall To Network Intrusion Detection System
White Papers Stateful firewall analyzes packets up to their layer 4 headers while NIDS analyzes the whole packet. This paper also suggests some improvement over TCP state management and TCP flow normalization. Computer network is already an indispensable part...
[April 24, 2008, 0:00]
Impact Of Segments Aggregation On TCP Reno Flows In Optical Burst Switching Networks
White Papers It analyzes the TCP send rate, i.e.the amount of data sent per time unit, taking into account of the burst assembly mechanism, called burstification process; the burst loss events inside the OBS network.
[January 14, 2008, 23:00]
Sizing DropTail Queues For Heterogeneous TCP Sources Experiencing Periodic Loss
White Papers This paper analyzes droptail buffers for TCP networks with heterogeneous sources. The paper provides a new buffer-sizing rule which is linearly decreasing with the number of sources and which also depends on the range of round-trip times.
[October 30, 2007, 23:00]
On The Performance Of TCP Spoofing In Satellite Networks
White Papers This paper analyzes the performance of TCP in a network that consists of both satellite and terrestrial components. Spoofing involves the transparent splitting of a TCP connection between the source and destination by some entity within the network...
[January 14, 2008, 23:00]
Computational Energy Cost Of TCP
White Papers It analyzes the energy consumption of TCP on two platforms (laptop and iPAQ) and three operating systems (FreeBSD 4.2, 5 and Linux 2.4.7). This paper presents results from a detailed energy measurement study of TCP.
[June 13, 2006, 0:00]
TPF: TCP Plugged File System For Efficient Data Delivery Over TCP
White Papers Therefore, in order to achieve high-performance data delivery over TCP, the paper thoroughly analyzes TCP-based data delivery and identifies three critical mismatches in a general file system design while supplying data to TCP.
[December 26, 2007, 23:00]
Wireline TCP Options Behaviour In The GPRS Network
White Papers This paper analyzes the TCP SACK and Timestamps options performance in a busy GPRS network. These applications work with the TCP protocol, a protocol that evolves by constantly adopting more functions and options.
[June 28, 2004, 0:00]
TCP Performance In Wireless Access With Adaptive Modulation And Coding
White Papers The paper analyzes the end-to-end TCP performance via a fixed-point procedure that effectively couples TCP with the AMC-based wireless link. This paper studies a wireless access system with Adaptive Modulation and Coding (AMC) at the physical layer...
[December 6, 2007, 23:00]
Controlling TCP Fairness In WLAN Access Networks
White Papers The paper proposes and analyzes two solutions that are capable of enabling TCP fairness with minimal additional complexity. This paper studies the problem of maintaining fairness for TCP connections in wireless local area networks (WLANs) based...
[July 9, 2007, 0:00]
Analysis Of The Competition Between Wired, DSL And Wireless TCP Flows In An Access Network
White Papers This paper analyzes the performance of a large population composed of several classes of long lived TCP flows experiencing packet losses due to random transmission errors and to congestion created by the sharing of a common tail-drop or AQM...
[December 26, 2007, 23:00]
Stability Analysis Of A Window-Based Flow Control Mechanism For TCP Connections With Different Propagation Delays
White Papers This paper focuses on a window-based flow control mechanism based on the congestion avoidance mechanism of TCP Vegas, and analyzes its stability using a control theoretic approach. TCP (Transmission Control Protocol), a sort of feedback-based...
[December 5, 2007, 23:00]
Modeling RED With Idealized TCP Sources
White Papers This paper analyzes the dynamic behavior of a single RED controlled queue interacting with a large population of idealized TCP sources, i.e.sources obeying the rules of linear increase and multiplicative decrease.
[January 14, 2008, 23:00]
On The Autocorrelation Structure Of TCP Traffic
White Papers The paper identifies and analyzes separately the two mechanisms within TCP that are responsible for this scaling behavior: timeouts and congestion avoidance. In addition, the recent claims that the TCP protocol can generate traffic with long rage...
[October 30, 2007, 23:00]
Predicting Short-Transfer Latency From TCP Arcana: A Trace-Based Validation
White Papers This paper analyzes the predictive abilities of these techniques using traces from a variety of Web servers, and show that they can achieve useful accuracy in many, but not all, cases. In some contexts it may be useful to predict the latency for...
[December 26, 2007, 23:00]
Analysis And Design Of Controllers For AQM Routers Supporting TCP Flows
White Papers Second, it analyzes the present de facto AQM standard: Random Early Detection (RED) and determines that REDs queue-averaging is not beneficial. In Active Queue Management (AQM), core routers signal Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) sources with...
[October 31, 2007, 23:00]
Reorder Detecting TCP (RD-TCP) With Explicit Packet Drop Notification (EPDN)
White Papers This paper considers wired networks and analyzes the performance of such networks when reordering of packets occurs. Reordering of packets decreases the TCP performance of a network, mainly because it leads to overestimation of the congestion of...
[January 14, 2008, 23:00]
Improving The Performance Of TCP In The Case Of Packet Reordering
White Papers This paper considers wired networks and analyzes the performance of such networks when reordering of packets occurs. Reordering of packets decreases the TCP performance of a network, mainly because it leads to overestimation of the congestion of...
[January 14, 2008, 23:00]
Synchronization Of TCP Flows In Networks With Small DropTail Buffers
White Papers This paper describes this dynamic using a weakly-coupled oscillator model and analyzes the coherence of oscillation as a function of coupling strength. This paper is interested in the oscillatory regime of such networks and considers a topology...
[October 30, 2007, 23:00]
RD-TCP : Reorder Detecting TCP
White Papers This paper considers wired networks with transmission that follows predominantly, but not necessarily exclusively, symmetric routing paths, and it analyzes the performance of such networks when reordering of packets occurs.
[January 14, 2008, 23:00]
