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Revision with unchanged content. 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, hetero geneous 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 per formance and what is the call level performance. This book is useful to the professionals in network community like professors, graduate students, and researchers.

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Has been pursuing his Ph.D. degree major in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, minor in Department of Mathematics, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA. From 2006, he is a faculty member in Department of Electronic Engineereing, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Shanghai, China.

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