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A stochastic model of TCP/IP with stationary random losses by E. Altman; K. Avrachenkov; C. Barakat is a Computer Science article available to read on EtoBox.

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In this paper, we present a model for TCP/IP congestion control mechanism. The rate at which data is transmitted increases linearly in time until a packet loss is detected. At this point, the transmission rate is divided by a constant factor. Losses are generated by some exogenous random process which is assumed to be stationary ergodic. This allows us to account for any correlation and any distribution of inter-loss times. We obtain an explicit expression for the throughput of a TCP connection and bounds on the throughput when there is a limit on the window size. In addition, we study the effect of the Timeout mechanism on the throughput. A set of experiments is conducted over the real Internet and a comparison is provided with other models that make simple assumptions on the inter-loss time process. The comparison shows that our model approximates well the throughput of TCP for many distributions of inter-loss times.

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Author
E. Altman; K. Avrachenkov; C. Barakat
Publisher
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Published
2005
Language
EN
Field
Computer Science (Physical Sciences)