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FAST TCP
Last modified: Tuesday, April 11, 2006
A TCP variant. FAST TCP is an alternative congestion
control algorithm in TCP,
that is designed to sustain high throughput and utilization for high-speed data
transfers over large distance (e.g., tens of gigabyte
files across the Atlantic). The Fast TCP system being developed by Steven Low and
colleagues at the California Institute of Technology. Current implementation is
in TCP on the Linux platform, although the principles
and design can be implemented in other contexts than TCP.
FAST Homepage The homepage for FAST research and development at the California Institute of Technology.
FAST TCP From Theory to Experiments (PDF) This describes a variant of TCP, called FAST, that can sustain high throughput and utilization at multi-Gbps over large distance. We present the motivation, review the background theory, summarize key features of FAST TCP, and report experimental results from our first public demonstration in November 2002.
