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A Step toward Realistic Performance Evaluation of High-Speed TCP Variants

@inproceedings{Ha2006AST,
  title={A Step toward Realistic Performance Evaluation of High-Speed TCP Variants},
  author={Sangtae Ha and Yusung Kim and Long Le and Injong Rhee and Lisong Xu},
  year={2006}
}
This is a work-in-progress report on our work on designing realistic evaluation suites for testing high-speed TCP variants. In this work, we have created an experimental network model that captures some of the complex characteristics of propagation delays and background traffic [14, 15, 20]. We use our network model to evaluate a large collection of recently proposed TCPs for high-speed networks: BIC TCP, CUBIC, FAST, HSTCP, H-TCP, and STCP. While we do not claim that we have the most realistic… Expand
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