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The Effect of Reverse Traffic on the Performance of New TCP Congestion Control Algorithms
White Papers An important consequence of the ack-clocking is that a TCP flow can be heavily affected by the presence of reverse traffic provoking congestion along its ack path. Several new TCP congestion control algorithms have been proposed to speed up the TCP...
[December 27, 2007, 0:01]
Edinburgh Leads the Way With Its RFID Bus Priority System to Help Reduce Congestion and Speed Up Traffic
White Papers Edinburgh is in the forefront of technology that automatically gives buses the green light, reduces traffic congestion and encourages use of public transport. TIRIS Radio Frequency IDentification (RFID) technology from Texas Instruments is being...
[October 29, 2007, 23:00]
Surge in traffic hints at upturn
News Longtime Bay Area traffic reporter Ron Lyons said he has noticed increased congestion on several commutes in recent months. Still, many Silicon Valley veterans are optimistic that the newfound traffic congestion is a sign of better times.
[October 3, 2003, 10:04]
Dynamic Load Balancing Without Packet Reordering
White Papers Splitting traffic at the granularity of packets quickly and accurately assigns the desired traffic share to each path, but can reorder packets within a TCP flow, confusing TCP congestion control. Dynamic load balancing is a popular recent technique...
[July 10, 2008, 1:01]
Quality of Service on Cisco Catalyst 4500 Series Supervisor Engines
White Papers Quality of Service (QoS) provides the capability to differentiate among different classes of traffic and to prioritize the traffic in times of network congestion, according to its relative importance.
[January 30, 2009, 7:08]
AMPS - ANStool: Interoperability of Automated Tools for the Provisioning of QoS Services
White Papers Packet networks that support QoS can accommodate simultaneously different traffic types, such as data, voice, and video, by handling time-critical traffic appropriately at congestion points. Each traffic class is mapped to a Per-Hop Behavior (PHB...
[July 18, 2008, 1:01]
Highways Agency tech management criticised
News Road traffic congestion on our motorways and trunk roads is an enduring problem," he said. The Highways Agency has developed a new sophisticated computer network to deal with congestion across the UK but has failed to install the system to cover...
[November 29, 2004, 15:30]
Will congestion charging boost teleworking?
News Apart from the added costs for individual car drivers, no one really knows how the congestion charge will affect traffic levels in London. There are signs that London's impending congestion charge, being keenly watched by other cities that would...
[February 11, 2003, 12:10]
BT says no to traffic shaping
News Traffic shaping is a means of prioritising certain types of data over others to avoid network congestion. It is up to us at the core of the network to make sure there is enough bandwidth for [our services and those of our competitors]," said Beal...
[April 12, 2007, 17:52]
InfiniBand chips add Ethernet support
News But "fundamental differences" give InfiniBand an edge in areas such as network traffic congestion. Ethernet deals with traffic congestion poorly; packets of data get lost and must be re-sent, dramatically degrading performance.
[April 2, 2007, 10:02]
The Impact of Burst Switching on TCP Performance
White Papers Even a single burst loss can affect TCP congestion control mechanism and many TCP sources then attempt to reduce down its send rate to avoid network congestion. In an OBS network, input traffic is aggregated to generate a big sized data burst at an...
[December 6, 2007, 0:01]
Streaming a Napster solution on campus
News The product gives users access to Launch.com's music and video content while offloading the network congestion to an infrastructure run by iBeam Broadcasting. In addition to congestion relief, the other appealing aspect of the service was that it...
[July 12, 2000, 13:58]
UK shrugs off American broadband troubles
News According to the Wall Street Journal, the mass market rollout of broadband cable Internet access across the US has led to major problems with network congestion. Indeed, a Freeserve spokesman is confident that it will be able to avoid congestion...
[March 20, 2000, 8:42]
SQL Slammer worm wreaks havoc on Internet
News Microsoft spokesman Rick Miller was quoted in USA Today as confirming that Internet congestion was interfering with administrators trying to download the patch. The same congestion also completely prevented consumers from contacting Microsoft over...
[January 26, 2003, 9:58]
Unmetered access could bring network problems
News AOL, which trialled unmetered Internet access 18 months ago thinks any suggestions of network congestion is utter nonsense. Network congestion is a red herring to be honest," said a spokesman. BT must have accepted that there isn't going to be...
[March 15, 2000, 15:20]
Napster changes its tune
News Eddie Kessler, vice president of engineering at Napster, said he hopes other colleges lift the ban as soon as the revisions are proved useful in curbing congestion. Even while Napster is being sued by the music industry, work on the software...
[March 23, 2000, 12:39]
Broadband vendors: Why can't we do it in the road?
News The government claims that it will help to reduce traffic congestion, but the UK Competitive Telecommunications Association (UKCTA) predicts painful side-effects. The Traffic Management Bill will limit the extent to which utility companies such as...
[June 29, 2004, 16:30]
Visual Exploratory Data Analysis of Traffic Volume
White Papers Beijing has deployed Intelligent Transportation System (ITS) monitoring devices along selected major roads in the core urban area in order to help relieve traffic congestion and improve traffic conditions.
[October 14, 2008, 1:01]
Vodafone traffic service may slow drive to 3G
News Subscribers to the Vodafone live service will soon be able use their mobile phone to plan a journey across the UK and be guided around traffic congestion. The network operator is adding traffic and travel information to Vodafone live -- which...
[August 11, 2003, 13:55]
EC sets aside spectrum for 'intelligent' cars
News We should also keep in mind that with 24 percent of Europeans' driving time spent in traffic jams, the costs caused by congestion could reach €80bn [£63bn] by 2010. The development of such 'smart vehicle communication systems', or 'co-operative...
[August 6, 2008, 11:25]
