How to understand the fundamental nature of wired and wireless networks
is a critical and interesting issue. With the rapid development of
networks, the performance is obtaining more and more attention. This
book is trying to answer the following questions. (i) what are the
stability characteristics of TCP flows over a wired networks, which is
in the linear scale, including the definition of stability, the
normalized fluid model, general AIMD parameter pairs, etc; (ii) what are
the performance of TCP flows under an aggressive scale, including the
stochastic model, homogeneous round trip time, heterogeneous round trip
time, mixture of long live and short live flows, etc; (iii) when TCP is
applied to wireless networks, how to characterise the TCP influence? How
to set up a two-level model? What is the packet level performance and
what is the call level performance. This book is useful to the
professionals in network community like professors, graduate students,
and researchers.