Congestion avoidance and control
SIGCOMM '88 Symposium proceedings on Communications architectures and protocols
A control-theoretic approach to flow control
SIGCOMM '91 Proceedings of the conference on Communications architecture & protocols
Observations on the dynamics of a congestion control algorithm: the effects of two-way traffic
SIGCOMM '91 Proceedings of the conference on Communications architecture & protocols
TCP/IP illustrated (vol. 1): the protocols
TCP/IP illustrated (vol. 1): the protocols
Random early detection gateways for congestion avoidance
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
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SIGCOMM '94 Proceedings of the conference on Communications architectures, protocols and applications
Improving the start-up behavior of a congestion control scheme for TCP
Conference proceedings on Applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computer communications
An evaluation of TCP with larger initial windows
ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review
On estimating end-to-end network path properties
Proceedings of the conference on Applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computer communication
Some observations on the dynamics of a congestion control algorithm
ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review
Optimizing TCP Start-up Performance
Optimizing TCP Start-up Performance
SPAND: shared passive network performance discovery
USITS'97 Proceedings of the USENIX Symposium on Internet Technologies and Systems on USENIX Symposium on Internet Technologies and Systems
Wide-area Internet traffic patterns and characteristics
IEEE Network: The Magazine of Global Internetworking
Robust TCP Congestion Recovery
ICDCS '01 Proceedings of the The 21st International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems
Improving TCP performance in integrated wireless communications networks
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking - Wireless IP through integration of wireless LAN and cellular networks
Robust TCP congestion recovery
Journal of High Speed Networks
Improving TCP performance in integrated wireless communications networks
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking - Wireless IP through integration of wireless LAN and cellular networks
Taming the elephants: New TCP slow start
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
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This paper presents a new variant of Slow-start, called Smooth-start, which provides a smooth transition between the exponential and linear growth phases of TCP congestion window. Slow-start is known to make an abrupt transition between the Slow-start and Congestion-Avoidance phases, and hence, often causes multiple packet losses from a window of data and retransmission timeouts, which, in turn, reduce effective throughput and result in global synchronization. Smooth-start solves this problem by approaching the Slow-start threshold more gradually. Our extensive simulation results show that Smooth-start can significantly reduce both packet losses and traffic burstiness, thus improving the performance of TCP congestion control at the start of a TCP connection or after a retransmission timeout. Furthermore, Smooth-start is very simple to implement and requires TCP modifications at the sender side only.