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Scalable Reliable Multicast
S. Floyd, V. Jacobson, S. McCanne, C-G Liu, L. Zhang, “A Reliable Multicast Framework for Light-weight Sessions and Application Level Framing,” ACM SIGCOMM Conference, (August 1995). [PDF] Summary Unlike unicast transmissions where requirements for different reliable, sequential data delivery are fairly general, different multicast applications have different requirements for reliability. The authors argue that designing ...
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Modeling Wireless Links for Transport Protocols
Andrei Gurtov, Sally Floyd, “Modeling Wireless Links for Transport Protocols,” ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communications Review, Volume 34, Number 2, (April 2004). [PDF] Summary Intrinsic characteristics of wireless links (e.g., variable bandwidth, bit corruption, channel allocation delays, and asymmetry) significantly affect performance of transport protocols. In addition, different types of wireless links show noticeable variance in ...
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Random Early Detection Gateways for Congestion Avoidance
S. Floyd, V. Jacobson, “Random Early Detection Gateways for Congestion Avoidance,” IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, (August 1993). [PDF] Summary Random Early Detection or RED detects impending congestion based on average queue size and notifies connections of congestion through binary feedback by dropping packets or by marking bits in headers. To this end, RED uses two ...
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