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Harnessing TCP's Burstiness With Flowlet Switching
Overview The performance of the Internet is determined not only by the network and hardware technologies that underlie it, but also by the software protocols that govern its use. In particular, the TCP transport protocol is responsible for carrying the great majority of traffic in the current internet, including web traffic, email, file transfers, music and video downloads. TCP provides vides two main functions. First, it provides vides functionality to detect and retransmit pack packets lost during a transfer thereby providing a reliable transport port service to higher layer applications. Second, it enforces congestion control. A particular aim here is to avoid so-called congestion collapse, prevalent in the late 1980s prior to the inclusion of congestion control functionality in TCP.
| Publisher | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | File Format | |
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| Date Published | December 2004 | ||
| Format | White Papers | ||
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