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Active Delay Control for TCP
Overview Active Delay Control is a novel extension for TCP, where TCP endpoints impose delays on the transmission of packets to improve performance. The amount of delay can be calculated by routers from the level of congestions, or by endpoints from the received congestion signals. In particular, when there are many TCP flows competing for the bandwidth of a link, they can reduce their transmission rates to arbitrary degrees by increasing delays, without experiencing TCP time-outs. Active Delay Control is therefore useful for those long-lived TCP-based applications that can not tolerate time-outs. Examples of such applications are video streaming and storage networks. It is also useful for short-lived flows that require short transfer time. Examples of such applications are HTTP transactions.
| Publisher | Harvard University | File Format | |
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| Date Published | November 2001 | ||
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