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Survey on Fairness Issues in TCP Congestion Control Mechanisms

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Overview This paper surveys the fairness issues in the congestion control mechanisms of TCP, which is one of most important service aspects in the current and future Internet. The paper first summarizes the problems from a perspective of the fair service among connections. Several solution methods are next surveyed. Those are modifications of TCP congestion control mechanism and router support for achieving the fair service among TCP connections. It finally investigates the fair share of resources at endhosts.

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Publisher	Osaka University	File Format	PDF
Date Published	February 2001	Downloads	2
Format	White Papers
Topics	TCP - IP

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