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FAST TCP: From Background Theory to Experiments
Overview A breakthrough that has allowed the Internet to expand by five orders of magnitude in size and in backbone speed in the last 15 years was the invention in 1988 by Jacobson of an end-to-end congestion control algorithm in TCP (Transmission Control Protocol). The algorithm is a distributed asynchronous method to share network resources among competing users. TCP has been carrying more than 90% of the Internet traffic. This paper provides a tutorial on a variant of TCP, called FAST that can sustain high throughput and utilization at multi-Gbps over long distance. The paper presents the motivation, reviews the background theory, summarizes key features of AST TCP, and reports the preliminary experimental results.
| Publisher | California Institute of Technology | File Format | |
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| Date Published | March 2003 | ||
| Format | White Papers | ||
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