The more information about current network conditions available to a transport protocol, the more efficiently it can use the network to transfer its data. In networks such as the...
The path taken by a packet traveling across the Internet depends on a large number of factors, including routing protocols and pernetwork routing policies. The impact of these fac...
Stefan Savage, Andy Collins, Eric Hoffman, John Sn...
The conventional approach to routing in computer networks consists of using a heuristic to compute a single shortest path from a source to a destination. Single-path routing is ve...
We suggest a new simple forwarding technique to speed-up IP destination address lookup. The technique is a natural extension of IP, requires 5 bits in the IP header (IPv4, 7 in IP...
Internet service providers face a daunting challenge in provisioning network resources, due to the rapid growth of the Internet and wide fluctuations in the underlying traffic pa...