[Acpc-l] Scientific Talk - Simulation Modeling

[Gabriele Kotsis]

Vortragsankuendigung / Announcement of a Scientific Talk

Institut fuer Informatik und Wirtschaftsinformatik
Universitaet Wien
Lenaugasse 2/8
A-1080 Wien

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Fluid-based Simulation Modeling of TCP

   David Nicol
   Dartmouth College
   (on leave at Oxford University)

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Friday, July 14, 2000, 16:00 st

Seminarroom Lenaugasse 2, 1st Floor

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This talk describes how the TCP protocol
can be modeled in a simulation when traffic is viewed
as fluid flow having piece-wise constant rate functions.
The motivation is to capture essential TCP behavior
in a simulation that runs faster than an
ordinary segment-oriented simulator.  The envisioned
application is generation of realistic background
traffic, when studying _other_ protocols.
Surprisingly, in the continuous formulation we
are still able to capture important TCP features such
as slow-start, congestion-avoidance, time-outs,
lost data, and fast-retransmit.

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