Building on the vast body of existing TCP models, we develop a novel versatile model that explicitly captures user heterogeneity, and takes into consideration dynamics at both the packet level and the flow level. It is described how the resulting multiple time-scale model can be numerically evaluated. Validation is done by using NS2 simulations as a benchmark. In extensive numerical experiments, we study the impact of heterogeneity in the round-trip times on user-level characteristics such as throughputs and flow transmission times, thus quantifying the resulting bias. In particular, we investigate to what extent this bias is affected by the networks' 'packet-level parameters', such as buffer sizes. We conclude by extending the single-link model in a straightforward way to the general network setting. © IFIP International Federation for Information Processing 2005.
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Abendroth, D., Van Den Berg, H., & Mandjes, M. (2005). A multiple time-scale model for TCP bandwidth sharing under user heterogeneity. In Lecture Notes in Computer Science (Vol. 3462, pp. 561–573). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/11422778_45
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