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FAST TCP: From Theory to Experiments

Date: January 2008
Type: White Paper
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Overview: The congestion control algorithm in the current TCP has performed remarkably well and is generally believed to have prevented severe congestion as the Internet scaled up by six orders of magnitude in size, speed, load, and connectivity in the last 15 years. This paper describes a variant of TCP, called FAST, that can sustain high throughput and utilization at multigigabits per second over large distances. It presents the motivation, review the background theory, summarize key features of FAST TCP, and report the first experimental results.


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