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Published January 2005 | Published
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FAST TCP: from theory to experiments

Jin, Cheng
Wei, David X.
Low, Steven H. ORCID icon
Bunn, Julian ORCID icon
Choe, Hyojeong D.
Doyle, John C. ORCID icon
Newman, Harvey ORCID icon
Ravot, Sylvain
Singh, Suresh
Paganini, Fernando
Buhrmaster, Gary
Cottrell, Les
Martin, Oliver
Feng, Wu-chun

Abstract

We describe a variant of TCP, called FAST, that can sustain high throughput and utilization at multigigabits per second over large distances. We present the motivation, review the background theory, summarize key features of FAST TCP, and report our first experimental results.

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© Copyright 2005 IEEE. Reprinted with permission. A global experiment such as the one reported here requires the contribution of a large number of people. We gratefully acknowledge the support of: • The Caltech team, in particular, C. Chapman, C. Hu (Williams/Caltech), J. Pool, J. Wang, and Z. Wang (UCLA) • The CERN team, in particular, P. Moroni • The Cisco team, in particular, B. Aiken, V. Doraiswami, M. Potter, R. Sepulveda, M. Turzanski, D. Walsten and S. Yip; Cisco also loaned the GSR 12406 router at Sunnyvale, and additional modules at Starlight, CERN and Sunnyvale • The DataTAG team, in particular, E. Martelli and J. P. Martin-Flatin • The LANL team, in particular, G. Hurwitz, E. Weigle, and A. Engelhart • The Level(3) team, in particular, P. Fernes and R. Struble; Level(3) also donated the OC192 link between StarLight in Chicago and the Level(3) PoP in Sunnyvale • The SCinet team, in particular, G. Goddard and J. Patton • The SLAC team, in particular, C. Granieri C. Logg, I. Mei, W. Matthews, R. Mount, J. Navratil, and J. Williams • The StarLight team, in particular, T. deFanti and L. Winkler • The TeraGrid team, in particular, L. Winkler and the funding support of the European Commission (Grant IST-2001-32459), U.S. Army Research Office (Grant DAAD19-02-1-0283), U.S. Department of Energy (Grants DE-AC03-76SF00515, DE-FG03-92-ER40701, and W-7405-ENG-36), and U.S. National Science Foundation (Grants ANI-0113425 and ANI-0230967).

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