FAST TCP: from theory to experiments

Cheng Jin, David X. Wei, Steven H. Low, Julian Bunn, Hyojeong Choe, John C. Doyle, H. B. Newman, S. Ravot, Sumit Kumar Singh, Fernando Paganini,

IEEE Network · 2005 · 200 citations · 18 references

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We describe a variant of TCP, called FAST, that can sustain high throughput and utilization at multigigabits per second over large distances. We present the motivation, review the background theory, summarize key features of FAST TCP, and report our first experimental results.

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