The effect of the initial window size and limited transmit algorithm on the transient behavior of TCP transfers

@misc{citeulike:2766904, abstract = {We study the impact of the modifications proposed for TCP in the context of short file transfers. The two most important proposals are the increment of the initial window size (IW) [3] and the Limited Transmit algorithm (LT) [1]. We analyze analytically and by simulations the effect of these proposals on the TCP latency. We demonstrate that the LT proposal reduces the TCP latency similarly to the IW proposal however LT is less aggressive than IW. Nevertheless, in the context of short file...}, author = {Ayesta, U. and Avrachenkov, K. }, citeulike-article-id = {2766904}, keywords = {latency, short, tcp}, posted-at = {2008-05-07 17:08:29}, priority = {2}, title = {The effect of the initial window size and limited transmit algorithm on the transient behavior of TCP transfers}, url = {http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/586333.html}, year = {2002} }

TY - GEN ID - citeulike:2766904 L3 - citeulike-article-id:2766904 TI - The effect of the initial window size and limited transmit algorithm on the transient behavior of TCP transfers N2 - We study the impact of the modifications proposed for TCP in the context of short file transfers. The two most important proposals are the increment of the initial window size (IW) [3] and the Limited Transmit algorithm (LT) [1]. We analyze analytically and by simulations the effect of these proposals on the TCP latency. We demonstrate that the LT proposal reduces the TCP latency similarly to the IW proposal however LT is less aggressive than IW. Nevertheless, in the context of short file... KW - latency KW - short KW - tcp AU - Ayesta, U AU - Avrachenkov, K PY - 2002/// UR - http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/586333.html ER -