RIS ID
11197
Abstract
This paper examines a hop-by-hop flow control scheme and compares it with the operation of TCP end-to-end flow control. The individual link control scheme is described. Both schemes are simulated under bursty traffic in a network with 50 nodes and 96 links. It is found that the hop-by-hop scheme results in similar levels of utilization to TCP, but that the average queue size is 30 times smaller.
Publication Details
This article was originally published as: King, D, Walker K & Platt, D, The price we pay for using TCP, Proceedings 12th IEEE International Conference on Networks ICON 2004, 16-19 November 2004, vol 1, 9-13. Copyright IEEE 2004.