Jacobson
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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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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Congestion Avoidance and Control
V. Jacobson, M. Karels, “Congestion Avoidance and Control,” ACM SIGCOMM Conference, (August 1988). [PDF] Summary This paper argues that much of the congestion-related problems (observed circa 1988 in LBL to UC Berkeley connections on 4.3 BSD machines) stem from wrong implementations and bugs in transport protocol, rather than the protocol itself. The authors present examples ...
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