: Multicasting has an increasing importance for network applications such as groupware or videoconferencing. Several multicast routing protocols have been defined. However they can...
In this paper, we explore the operation of TCP congestion control when the receiver can misbehave, as might occur with a greedy Web client. We first demonstrate that there are sim...
Stefan Savage, Neal Cardwell, David Wetherall, Tom...
In ATM UBR networks supporting TCP traffic, optimal efficiency can only be envisaged if switches adopt a discard mechanism that operates at the packet level rather than the cell l...
Different applications have different security requirements for data privacy, data integrity, and authentication. Encryption is one technique that addresses these requirements. En...
Lyndon G. Pierson, Edward L. Witzke, Mark O. Bean,...
TCP's delayed acknowledgment algorithm has been shown to hurt TCP performance. One method of gaining the performance lost by reducing the number of acknowledgments sent is to...