The TCP Bandwidth-Delay Product Revisited: Network Buffering, Cross Traffic, and Socket Buffer Auto-Sizing Export

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TY - GEN ID - citeulike:2271709 L3 - citeulike-article-id:2271709 N2 - TCP is often blamed that it cannot use efficiently network paths with high Bandwidth-Delay Product (BDP). The BDP is of fundamental importance because it determines the required socket buffer size for maximum throughput. In this paper, we re-examine the BDP concept, considering the effects of network buffering and cross traffic on the `bandwidth' and `delay' characteristics of a path. We show that, with careful socket buffer sizing, a bulk TCP transfer can saturate a network path independent of ... TI - The TCP Bandwidth-Delay Product Revisited: Network Buffering, Cross Traffic, and Socket Buffer Auto-Sizing KW - buffer KW - sizing AU - Jain, M AU - Prasad, R AU - Dovrolis, C PY - 2003/// UR - http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/jain03tcp.html ER -