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Modeling TCP throughput: a simple model and its empirical validation
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In this paper we develop a simple analytic characterization of the steady state throughput, as a function of loss rate and round trip time for a bulk transfer TCP flow, i.e., a flow with an unlimited amount of data to send. Unlike the models in [6, 7, 10], our model captures not only the behavior of TCP's fast retransmit mechanism (which is also considered in [6, 7, 10]) but also the effect of TCP's timeout mechanism on throughput. Our measurements suggest that this latter behavior is important from a modeling perspective, as almost all of our TCP traces contained more time-out events than fast retransmit events. Our measurements demonstrate that our model is able to more accurately predict TCP throughput and is accurate over a wider range of loss rates.
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- Authors
- Padhye, J., Firoiu, V., Towsley, D., & Kurose, J.
- Venue
- ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review
- Published
- 1998-10
- Volume
- 28
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 303-314
- ISSN
- 0146-4833 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W3001942212
- Cited by
- 716
- References
- 0
- FWCI
- 14.25
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
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