FAST TCP: from theory to experiments
Cheng Jin, David X. Wei, Steven H. Low, Julian Bunn, Hyojeong Choe, John C. Doyle, H. B. Newman, S. Ravot, Sumit Kumar Singh, Fernando Paganini, G. Buhrmaster, L. R. Cottrell, O. Martin, Wu-chun Feng · IEEE Network · 2005
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.