ACK filtering has been proposed as a technique to alleviate the congestion at the input of a slow channel located on the reverse path of a TCP connection. Old ACKs waiting at the ...
Many distributed multimedia applications have the ability to adapt to uctuations in the network conditions. By adjusting temporal and spatial quality to available bandwidth, or man...
Delayed acknowledgments were introduced to conserve network and host resources. Further reduction of the acknowledgment frequency can be motivated in the same way. However, reduci...
— Explicit congestion control schemes use router feedback to overcome limitations of the standard mechanisms of the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP). These approaches require ...
Abstract. While the Internet offers a single best-effort service, we remark that (i) core backbones are in general over provisioned, (ii) end users have increasingly faster acces...