@article{EJP1720,
author = {Jean-Baptiste Bardet and Alejandra Christen and Arnaud Guillin and Florent Malrieu and Pierre-André Zitt},
title = {Total variation estimates for the TCP process},
journal = {Electron. J. Probab.},
fjournal = {Electronic Journal of Probability},
volume = {18},
year = {2013},
keywords = {Network Protocols; Queueing Theory; Additive Increase Multiplicative Decrease Processes (AIMD); Piecewise Deterministic Markov Processes (PDMP); Exponential Ergodicity; Coupling},
abstract = {The TCP window size process appears in the modeling of the famous Transmission Control Protocol used for data transmission over the Internet. This continuous time Markov process takes its values in [0, ∞), is ergodic and irreversible. The sample paths are piecewise linear deterministic and the whole randomness of the dynamics comes from the jump mechanism. The aim of the present paper is to provide quantitative estimates for the exponential convergence to equilibrium, in terms of the total variation and Wasserstein distances.},
pages = {no. 10, 1-21},
issn = {1083-6489},
doi = {10.1214/EJP.v18-1720},
url = {http://ejp.ejpecp.org/article/view/1720}}