Improving the Round Trip Time Estimation in Internet Routers

published in the Carpathian Journal of Mathematics, ISSN: 1584-2851, Vol. 20, No. 2, pp. 149-154, 2004.
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D. Bufnea, A. Sterca, C. Cobarzan, F. Boian, "Improving the Round Trip Time Estimation in Internet Routers", Carpathian Journal of Mathematics, ISSN: 1584-2851, Vol. 20, No. 2, pp. 149-154, 2004

1	D. Bufnea, A. Sterca, C. Cobarzan, F. Boian, "Improving the Round Trip Time Estimation in Internet Routers", Carpathian Journal of Mathematics, ISSN: 1584-2851, Vol. 20, No. 2, pp. 149-154, 2004

Full paper

Improving the Round Trip Time Estimation in Internet Routers

Authors

Darius Bufnea, Adrian Sterca, Claudiu Cobarzan, Florian Boian
Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science,
Babeş-Bolyai University of Cluj-Napoca

Abstract

We review in this paper the concept of TCP-friendliness and we debate one of its weaknesses. Unfortunately, this weakness reduces the practical applicability of the TCP-friendliness equation. For a very high percent of the Internet flows, the TCP-friendliness test may have wrong results. We suggest in this paper a router algorithm that improves the efficiency of the TCP-friendliness equation for some UDP flows. This algorithm uses the additional information retrieved by the router from competing TCP flows in order to obtain a better approximation for the round trip time as used in the TCP-friendliness test.

Key words

congestion control, TCP friendly, TCP time stamp, UDP flows

BibTeX bib file

bufnea-2004.bib

@article{bufnea2004,
  title={Improving the Round Trip Time Estimation in {Internet} Routers},
  author={Bufnea, Darius and Sterca, Adrian and Cob\^arzan, Claudiu and Boian, Florian},
  journal={Carpathian Journal of Mathematics},
  volume={20},
  number={2},
  pages={149--154},
  year={2004}
}

@article{bufnea2004,

title={Improving the Round Trip Time Estimation in {Internet} Routers},

author={Bufnea, Darius and Sterca, Adrian and Cob\^arzan, Claudiu and Boian, Florian},

journal={Carpathian Journal of Mathematics},

volume={20},

number={2},

pages={149--154},

year={2004}

}

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