Document Type
Patent
Publication Date
October 2011
Patent Number
8036112
Abstract
The present invention provides a smooth friendly TCP based transport layer protocol method and apparatus for data and streaming applications. In accordance with the invention, a low pass filter that uses history information modifies the multiplicative decrease portion of TCP's additive increase multiplicative decrease strategy, thereby creating an additive increase smooth decrease solution. The present invention smoothes the variation of the congestion window in case of drop events and provides smooth transfer rates for streaming applications.
Application Number
11/625,591
Recommended Citation
Labrador, Miguel A. and Bakthavachalu, Sivakumar, "System and method for transmission control protocol (TCP) transmission rate control" (2011). USF Patents. 439.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/usf_patents/439
Assignees
University of South Florida
Filing Date
01/22/2007
Primary/U.S. Class
370/230
