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Document Type	thesis
Author Name	Kannan, Hariharan
Email Address	harik at cs.wpi.edu
URN	etd-0513102-135155
Title	TCP-Carson: A loss-event based Adaptive AIMD algorithm for Long-lived Flows
Degree	MS
Department	Computer Science
Advisors	Prof. Mark L. Claypool, Advisor Prof. Robert Kinicki, Co-Advisor Prof. David Finkel, Reader Prof. Micha Hofri, Department Head
Keywords	Loss TFRC AIMD TCP
Date of Presentation/Defense	2003-04-29
Availability	unrestricted
Abstract The diversity of network applications over the Internet has propelled researchers to rethink the strategies in the transport layer protocols. Current applications either use UDP without end-to-end congestion control mechanisms or, more commonly, use TCP. TCP continuously probes for bandwidth even at network steady state and thereby causes variation in the transmission rate and losses. This thesis proposes TCP Carson, a modification of the window-scaling approach of TCP Reno to suit long-lived flows using loss-events as indicators of congestion. We analyzed and evaluated TCP Carson using NS-2 over a wide range of test conditions. We show that TCP Carson reduces loss, improves throughput and reduces window-size variance. We believe that this adaptive approach will improve both network and application performance.
Files	hammel.pdf

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