TCP - IP White Papers
Using Partial Differential Equations to Model TCP Mice and Elephants in Large IP Networks
Overview Fluid models of IP networks have been recently proposed as a way to break the scalability barrier of traditional discrete state-space models, both simulative (e.g., ns-2) and analytical (e.g., queues and Markov chains). Fluid models adopt an abstract deterministic description of the average network dynamics through a set of ordinary differential equations that are then solved numerically, obtaining estimates of the time-dependent network behavior. However, an important limit of the fluid model approaches presented so far in the literature is their unnatural representation of scenarios comprising the short-lived TCP flows that dominate in today's Internet.
| Publisher | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers | File Format | |
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| Date Published | February 2004 | Downloads | 1 |
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