TY - GEN
T1 - A location information server for the internet
AU - Miller, Alan Henry David
N1 - Funding: This research was funded by a Research Studentship from Sun Micosystems.
PY - 2000
Y1 - 2000
N2 - Congestion is a major Internet problem. TCP accordingly employs congestion avoidance algorithms, which effectively limit the bandwidth available to a connection. Unfortunately, the assumptions against which these algorithms were formulated - low bandwidth, and bulk data transfers - are no longer valid. The combination of increasing bandwidth and short web transfers means that TCP traffic does not obtain a fair share of available bandwidth. Alternative techniques that predict a fairer starting window size for a TCP connection are presented and evaluated. It is further shown that minor modifications to TCP allow these predictions to be used to set start up control variables, and thereby increase the correlation betweep the bandwidth used by a connection and the level of congestion on its network path. These techniques are based on the use of a Location Information Server (LIS). The design, implementation and evaluation of an LIS is described.
AB - Congestion is a major Internet problem. TCP accordingly employs congestion avoidance algorithms, which effectively limit the bandwidth available to a connection. Unfortunately, the assumptions against which these algorithms were formulated - low bandwidth, and bulk data transfers - are no longer valid. The combination of increasing bandwidth and short web transfers means that TCP traffic does not obtain a fair share of available bandwidth. Alternative techniques that predict a fairer starting window size for a TCP connection are presented and evaluated. It is further shown that minor modifications to TCP allow these predictions to be used to set start up control variables, and thereby increase the correlation betweep the bandwidth used by a connection and the level of congestion on its network path. These techniques are based on the use of a Location Information Server (LIS). The design, implementation and evaluation of an LIS is described.
UR - https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCCN.2000
U2 - 10.1109/ICCCN.2000.885495
DO - 10.1109/ICCCN.2000.885495
M3 - Conference contribution
T3 - Proceedings international conference on computer communications and networks (ICCCN)
SP - 226
EP - 231
BT - Proceedings 9th IEEE international conference on computer communications and networks (ICCCN 2000)
A2 - Engbersen, Ton
A2 - Park, E. K.
PB - IEEE
CY - Piscataway, NJ
T2 - 9th International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks, ICCCN 2000
Y2 - 16 October 2000 through 18 October 2000
ER -