The resultant performance gains in efficiency, without undue sacrifice of fairness, friendliness, and stability have been reported in numerous papers that can be found on The TCP WESTWOOD Home Page.
The main idea of Westwood TCP, which is an end-to-end bandwidth estimation for setting control windows after congestion, was proposed by Saverio Mascolo.
He came out with the idea after reading the chapter on TCP congestion control in the book Data Networks by Larry Peterson.
The name "Westwood" was chosen by S. Mascolo as due homage to the home of UCLA where he was a visiting researcher at that time.
In fact, it was soon discovered that the Westwood bandwidth estimation algorithm did not work well in the presence of reverse traffic due to ack compression.