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IEEE Transactions on Networking
Volume 6 Number 5, October 1998

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Analysis of Source Policy and its Effects on TCP in Rate-Controlled ATM Networks

Lampros Kalampoukas and Anujan Varma, Member, IEEE

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Abstract:

This paper provides an analysis of the source policy in the rate-based congestion control scheme developed by the asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) Forum for available bit rate service and derives approximate analytical closed-form expressions to describe the rate increase process. These approximations are used to analyze the impact of the source algorithm on the TCP slow-start process operating over a rate-controlled ATM network. The results show that the increase in TCP congestion window ramp-up time is noticeable when the round-trip delay is small. The results are verified by simulation.

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