TCP flows start with an initial congestion window of at most four segments or approximately 4KB of data. Because most Web transactions are short-lived, the initial congestion wind...
Two schools of thoughts have emerged over the recent debate on internet router buffer sizing. One school argues that the presence of a large number of flows leads to traffic desync...
We consider the problem of admission control in resource sharing systems, such as web servers and transaction processing systems, when the job size distribution has high variabili...
We revisit the question of how much buffer an IP router should allocate for its Droptail FIFO link. For a long time, setting the buffer size to the bitrate-delay product has been ...
Sergey Gorinsky, Anshul Kantawala, Jonathan S. Tur...
—In this paper we develop a distributed rate control algorithm for multiple-unicast-sessions when network coding is allowed. Building on our recent flow-based characterization o...
Abdallah Khreishah, Chih-Chun Wang, Ness B. Shroff