Advanced Models for comparing and improving TCP

Peter Dimopoulos

School of CS&IT, RMIT University

Date and time: 11.30am-12.30pm, Friday 10th September, 2004

Venue: 10.11.04

Chair: James Harland

Abstract:

TCP is the most widely used transport protocol on the Internet. Most Internet applications like the HTTP, FTP and peer to peer networks use TCP to provide reliable end-to-end connections. In complex networks like the Internet, the performance of different flavours of TCP (Transmission Control Protocol) are very difficult to model due to the complexity of TCP and its feedback mechanisms.

Our work investigates the burstiness of the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) and its impact on a network of finite TCP connections. A detailed TCP and network model is developed to quantify both the burstiness and throughput of TCP connections sharing a single bottleneck router.

About the speaker:

Peter Dimopoulos is a PhD student in the School of Computer Science and Information Technology at RMIT Univeristy.

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