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10.4. Conclusion 259<br />

This dissertation investigated the performance bottlenecks, tuning <strong>and</strong><br />

modifications of hardware <strong>and</strong> software components to maximise this metric.<br />

More specifically, this dissertation studied the performance bottlenecks<br />

of TCP <strong>and</strong> congestion control algorithms. It investigated new congestion<br />

control algorithms in a series of systematic tests <strong>and</strong> discovered potentially<br />

serious implications upon fairness <strong>and</strong> impact upon competing traffic. As<br />

such, a Quality of Service solution using DiffServ was investigated which<br />

mitigated these effects <strong>and</strong> demonstrated significant performance improvements<br />

due to the protection of the flow.<br />

In conclusion, whilst the short term goal of achieving faster achievable<br />

goodputs is possible, the long term issues of Internet stability <strong>and</strong> fairness<br />

are still unclear.

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