FAST TCP

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FAST TCP is an abbreviation for Fast Active queue management Scalable Transmission Control Protocol, a TCP variant with congestion control algorithms especially suitable for high-speed, long-distance links.

Scientists at the California Institute of Technology developed FAST TCP, which is compatible with today's Internet. It uses queueing delay instead of loss probability as a congestion signal, which is thought to be easier to measure in networks with high bandwidth-delay product.

Results

The FAST TCP protocol was used to win the Supercomputing 2005 Bandwidth Challenge, read about the results here

External link

• FAST Homepage