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	Title		: Enhancing TCP's Loss Recovery Using Early Duplicate 
                          Acknowledgment Response
	Author(s)	: M. Allman, H. Balakrishnan, S. Floyd
	Filename	: draft-allman-tcp-lossrec-00.txt
	Pages		: 9
	Date		: 05-Jun-00
	
This document proposes two new TCP mechanisms that can be used to
more effectively recover lost segments when a connection's
congestion window is small, or when a large number of segments are
lost in a single transmission window.  The first of these
mechanisms, 'Limited Transmit', calls for sending a new data
segment in response to each of the first two duplicate
acknowledgments that arrive at the sender.  The second mechanism is
to reduce, in certain special circumstances, the number of duplicate
acknowledgments required to trigger a fast retransmission.

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