Paced TCP gives higher utilization with no buffers than with small buffers

Conference: ECOC 2007 - 33rd European Conference and Exhibition of Optical Communication
09/16/2007 - 09/20/2007 at Berlin, Germany

Proceedings: ECOC 2007

Pages: 2Language: englishTyp: PDF

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Authors:
Das, G.; Hinton, K. (Departments of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, ARC Special Research Centre for Ultra-Broadband Information Networks, University of Melbourne, Vic 3010, Australia)
Leckie, C. (Departments of Computer Science and Software Engineering, ARC Special Research Centre for Ultra-Broadband Information Networks, University of Melbourne, Vic 3010, Australia)

Abstract:
Using a new analytical model of TCP link utilization, we show that paced TCP achieves better utilization when the bottleneck routers have no buffers rather than small buffers.