[Tsvwg] Fwd: I-D ACTION:draft-ludwig-tsvwg-tcp-eifel-alg-00.txt

[Reiner Ludwig <[e-mail]>]

I would very much appreciate to get some feedback on this mailing list 
concening draft-ludwig-tsvwg-tcp-eifel-alg-00.txt.

///Reiner


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>         Title           : The Eifel Algorithm for TCP
>         Author(s)       : R. Ludwig
>         Filename        : draft-ludwig-tsvwg-tcp-eifel-alg-00.txt
>         Pages           : 12
>         Date            : 20-Nov-00
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>TCP's intertwined error and congestion control is not robust against
>spurious timeouts nor is it robust against packet re-orderings. A
>packet that is delayed in the network beyond the expiration of TCP's
>retransmission timer, is mistaken for a packet loss by a TCP sender.
>Also, a packet that is re-ordered in the network beyond TCP's
>duplicate acknowledgment threshold, is eventually mistaken for a
>packet loss by a TCP sender. Both situations lead to a spurious
>retransmit of the oldest outstanding segment, and an unnecessary
>reduction of the congestion window at the sender. Moreover, a
>spurious timeout forces the sender into a go-back-N retransmission
>mode leading to spurious retransmits of all outstanding segments.
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