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Many bandwidth estimation techniques, somehow related to the TCP world, have been proposed in the literature and adopted to solve several problems. In this paper we discuss their impact on the congestion control of TCP and we propose an algorithm which performs an explicit and effective estimate of the used bandwidth. We show by simulation that it efficiently copes with the packet clustering and ACK compression effects without leading to the biased estimate problem of existing algorithms.We present numerical results proving that TCP sources implementing the proposed scheme with an unbiased used-bandwidth estimate fairly share the bottleneck bandwidth with classical TCP Reno sources. Finally, we point out the benefits of using the proposed scheme compared to TCP Reno in networks with wireless links.
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Capone, A., Martignon, F. (2001). Bandwidth Estimates in the TCP Congestion Control Scheme. In: Palazzo, S. (eds) Evolutionary Trends of the Internet. IWDC 2001. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2170. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45400-4_39
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