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Best-effort delivery

Known as: Best-effort service, Best-effort network, Best effort 
Best-effort delivery describes a network service in which the network does not provide any guarantees that data is delivered or that a user is given… 
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Highly Cited
2008
Highly Cited
2008
This document specifies TCP-Friendly Rate Control (TFRC). TFRC is a congestion control mechanism for unicast flows operating in a… 
Highly Cited
2003
Highly Cited
2003
Numerous systems have been designed which use virtualization to subdivide the ample resources of a modern computer. Some require… 
Highly Cited
2002
Highly Cited
2002
This paper presents Scribe, a scalable application-level multicast infrastructure. Scribe supports large numbers of groups, with… 
Highly Cited
2000
Highly Cited
2000
This paper proposes a mechanism for equation-based congestion control for unicast traffic. Most best-effort traffic in the… 
Highly Cited
1999
Highly Cited
1999
This paper considers the potentially negative impacts of an increasing deployment of non-congestion-controlled best-effort… 
Review
1998
Review
1998
The upcoming gigabit-per-second high-speed networks are expected to support a wide range of communication-intensive real-time… 
Highly Cited
1996
Highly Cited
1996
The generalized processor sharing (GPS) discipline is proven to have two desirable properties: (a) it can provide an end-to-end… 
Review
1995
Review
1995
While today's computer networks support only best-effort service, future packet-switching integrated-services networks will have… 
Highly Cited
1994
Highly Cited
1994
We investigate the performance of TCP connections over ATM networks without ATM-level congestion control, and compare it to the…