Congestion avoidance and control
SIGCOMM '88 Symposium proceedings on Communications architectures and protocols
Modeling TCP throughput: a simple model and its empirical validation
Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM '98 conference on Applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computer communication
Promoting the use of end-to-end congestion control in the Internet
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
Equation-based congestion control for unicast applications
Proceedings of the conference on Applications, Technologies, Architectures, and Protocols for Computer Communication
Transient Behaviors of TCP-friendly Congestion Control Protocols
Transient Behaviors of TCP-friendly Congestion Control Protocols
Web100: extended TCP instrumentation for research, education and diagnosis
ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review
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TCP NewReno is the standard transport protocol originally designed to transport bulk data over the Internet. During the years it has been very successful to provide Internet stability due to its congestion control scheme. However TCP is not very suitable for multimedia streaming applications, that are time sensitive, because of its retransmission and multiplicative decrease mechanisms. The alternative to TCP is the User Datagram Protocol (UDP) which works as a simple packet multiplexer/demultiplexer and does not implement any congestion control scheme or retransmission mechanism. However, it has been pointed out that applications that don't use congestion control schemes are dangerous for the stability of the Internet [1]. The TCP Friendly Rate Control (TFRC) is currently been discussed within the IETF as a possible leading standard for streaming multimedia flows. This paper aims at investigating the performances of TCP and TFRC congestion control schemes in wired public Internet and in mixed wired/wireless Internet using a commercial UMTS card. The experiments carried out have shown that TFRC exhibits smoother rate dynamics in all wired scenarios, whereas in the case of UMTS scenario its burstiness is comparable to that of TCP.