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TCP Congestion Control
White Papers This paper is an exploratory survey of TCP congestion control principles and techniques. In addition to the standard algorithms used in common software implementations of TCP, this paper also describes some of the more common proposals developed by...
[December 20, 2007, 0:01]
TCP Sending Rate Control at Tera Bits Per Second
White Papers An analysis of the sending rate of TCP control over Terabit per second rate links illustrates how future optical network characteristics, such as higher bitrates, network congestion, and larger data loads, would affect performance.
[December 20, 2007, 0:01]
TCP End-to-End Performance Improvement Over Wireless Networks Via Early Packet Loss Recovery
White Papers A new technique is proposed that enables TCP to early detect packet losses, which cannot be detected and retransmitted using the standard fast retransmit mechanism, and to quickly retransmit those packets without waiting for a timeout to occur...
[December 27, 2007, 0:01]
TCP Westwood: Bandwidth Estimation for Enhanced Transport Over Wireless Links
White Papers TCP Westwood (TCPW) is a sender-side modification of the TCP congestion window algorithm that improves upon the performance of TCP Reno in wired as well as wireless networks. The improvement is most significant in wireless networks with lossy links...
[December 6, 2007, 0:01]
TCP Over CDMA2000 Networks: A Cross-Layer Measurement Study
White Papers Modern cellular channels in 3G networks incorporate sophisticated power control and dynamic rate adaptation which can have a significant impact on adaptive transport layer protocols, such as TCP. Though there exists studies that have evaluated the...
[November 7, 2007, 0:00]
TCP-Illinois: A Loss and Delay-Based Congestion Control Algorithm for High-Speed Networks
White Papers This paper introduces a new congestion control algorithm for high speed networks, called TCP-Illinois. TCP-Illinois uses packet loss information to determine whether the window size should be increased or decreased, and uses queueing delay...
[November 7, 2007, 0:00]
TCP-Friendly Rate Control With Token Bucket for VoIP Congestion Control
White Papers TCP Friendly Rate Control (TFRC) is a congestion control algorithm that provides a smooth transmission rate for real-time network applications. TFRC has been proven to be fair when competing with TCP flows over congested links, but it lacks quality...
[November 7, 2007, 0:00]
TCP/IP Ethernet Failover Explained
White Papers The HP TCP/IP product, NonStop TCP/IPv6 Software, provides increased throughput, improved fault tolerance, lower CPU utilization, and better scalability for mission-critical, enterprise-class applications than conventional TCP/IP.
[March 3, 2006, 0:01]
TCP Dynamics Over IEEE 802.11e WLANs: Modeling and Throughput Enhancement
White Papers Today, IEEE 802.11 Wireless LAN (WLAN) has become a prevailing solution for broadband wireless Internet access while Transport Control Protocol (TCP) is the dominant transport protocol in the Internet.
[December 20, 2007, 0:01]
TCP in Mixed Internet and Geo-Satellite Environments: Experiences and Results
White Papers The selected material includes: characterization of an induced error-prone satellite channel; results from an optimized non-congestion losses aware TCP (TCP Westwood) and its superior performance compared to TCP NewReno on such error prone scenario.
[December 6, 2007, 0:01]
TCP Performance in Case of Bi-Directional Packet Loss
White Papers Performance modeling of the Transport Control Protocol (TCP) has received a lot of attention over the past few years. The most commonly quoted results are approximate formulas for TCP throughput and document download times which are used for...
[December 27, 2007, 0:01]
TCP/IP Registry Values for Microsoft Windows Vista and Windows Server "Longhorn"
White Papers The TCP/IP protocol suite implementation in Windows Vista and Windows Server "Longhorn" obtains some of its configuration data from the registry. This white paper describes the registry values for the TCP/IP protocol stack in Microsoft Windows...
[March 1, 2007, 0:00]
TCP Support for Sensor Networks
White Papers TCP would be useful for tasks, where reliable unicast is appropriate, but the high bit error rates in wireless sensor networks lead to energy inefficiencies reducing the sensor network lifetime. We introduce an approach to support energy-efficient...
[December 27, 2007, 0:01]
TCP Meets Mobile Code
White Papers This paper argues that transport protocols such as TCP provide a rare domain in which protocol extensibility by untrusted parties is both valuable and practical. TCP continues to be refined despite more than two decades of progress and the...
[November 7, 2007, 0:00]
TCP Vegas: New Techniques for Congestion Detection and Avoidance
White Papers Vegas is a new implementation of TCP that achieves between 40 and 70% better throughput, with one-fifth to one-half the losses, as compared to the implementation of TCP in the Reno distribution of BSD Unix.
[November 7, 2007, 0:00]
TCP Vegas-Like Algorithm for Layered Multicast Transmission
White Papers This paper presents a simple protocol, inspired from TCP-Vegas, that reduces considerably the unnecessary join experiments while achieving intra-session and inter-session fairness as well as being TCP-Friendly.
[December 27, 2007, 0:01]
Cisco Unified Communications Manager 7.1(2) TCP and UDP Port Usage
White Papers This paper provides a list of the TCP and UDP ports that Cisco Unified Communications Manager 7.1(2) uses for intracluster connections and for communications with external applications or devices. It provides important information for the...
[August 30, 2009, 1:22]
TCP Congestion Control Over 3G Communication Systems: An Experimental Evaluation of New Reno, BIC and Westwood+
White Papers One of TCP's key tasks is to react and avoid network congestion episodes which nor-mally arise in packet switched networks. This paper focuses on the UMTS wireless scenario and it reports a campaign of measurements that involved around 3000 flows...
[December 20, 2007, 0:01]
TCP-Friendly Streaming With Decoder Buffer Control
White Papers So the paper proposes an advanced streaming mechanism which maintains playable time of the video in the decoder buffer at a target point while maximally utilizing given TCP-friendly rate. Recently, the emergent growth of real-time multimedia...
[December 21, 2007, 0:01]
TCP-Planet: A Reliable Transport Protocol for InterPlaNetary Internet
White Papers Current TCP protocols have very poor performance in the InterPlaNetary Internet which is characterized by extremely high propagation delays, link errors, asymmetrical bandwidth and blackouts. Slow start algorithms of the existing TCP protocols...
[October 31, 2007, 0:00]
