Analytical and empirical studies have shown that self-similar traffic can have detrimental impact on network performance including amplified queuing delay and packet-loss ratio. On the flip side, the ubiquity of scale-invariant burstiness observed across diverse networking contents can be exploited to better design resource control algorithms. This paper explores the issue of exploiting the self-similar characteristics of network traffic in TCP congestion control.
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