{"title":"A note on the fairness of TCP Vegas","authors":"C. Boutremans, J. Le Boudec","doi":"10.1109/IZSBC.2000.829247","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"This paper shows that TCP Vegas' fairness critically requires an accurate estimation of propagation delay. We also show that, in practice, this may be difficult to achieve and we discuss how to choose the parameters /spl alpha/ and /spl beta/ that control the window sizes' update.","PeriodicalId":409898,"journal":{"name":"2000 International Zurich Seminar on Broadband Communications. Accessing, Transmission, Networking. Proceedings (Cat. No.00TH8475)","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2000-02-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"43","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"2000 International Zurich Seminar on Broadband Communications. Accessing, Transmission, Networking. Proceedings (Cat. No.00TH8475)","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IZSBC.2000.829247","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
This paper shows that TCP Vegas' fairness critically requires an accurate estimation of propagation delay. We also show that, in practice, this may be difficult to achieve and we discuss how to choose the parameters /spl alpha/ and /spl beta/ that control the window sizes' update.