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Over the past three decades, the Internet's rapid growth has spurred explosive development of new applications such as mobile computing, digital music, and online video and gaming. The performance of these applications depends on the performance of various protocols and mechanisms enabling Internet functions. For 30 years now, TCP (Transmission Control Protocol) and IP (Internet Protocol) have been the dominant communication protocols, and they have fortuitously evolved despite the Internet’s multifold growth. To improve the Internet’s performance, networking researchers constantly develop new protocols and innovations.
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Aikat, J., Jeffay, K., Smith, F.D. (2012). Introduction. In: The Effects of Traffic Structure on Application and Network Performance. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-1848-1_1
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