uses a window-based flow control mechanism in TCP, as the feedback-based congestion control mechanism. As an example, a version of TCP mechanism called TCP Reno uses packet losses in the network as

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This paper proposes a mechanism for equation-based congestion control for unicast traffic. Most best-effort traffic in the current Internet is well-served by the dominant transport protocol, TCP. However, traffic such as best-effort unicast streaming multimedia could find use for a TCP

“ The Internet will almost certainly have a stronger impact than PC... a reasonable guess might put it ahead of the telephone and

In this paper, we seek to answer a simple question: "How prevalent are denial-of-service attacks in the Internet today?". Our motivation is to understand quantitatively the nature of the current threat as well as to enable longerterm analyses of trends and recurring patterns of attacks

Peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing accounts for an astonishing volume of current Internet tra#c. This paper probes deeply into modern P2P file sharing systems and the forces that drive them. By doing so, we seek to increase our understanding of P2P file sharing workloads and their implications

-speed ne!works with connections with large delay bandwidth products. gateways are likely to be designed with correspondingly large maximum queues to acccomodate transient congestion. In the current Internet, the TCP transport protocol detects congestion only after a packet has been dropped al the gateway

and proposed systems that can be used to derive measures of trust and reputation for Internet transactions, to analyse the current trends and developments in this area, and to propose a research agenda for trust and reputation systems.

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