[Tsvwg] Making TCP Robust Against Delay Spikes

"Andrei Gurtov" <andrei.gurtov@sonera.com> Fri, 01 March 2002 16:02 UTC

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A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts
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 Title  : Making TCP Robust Against Delay Spikes
 Author(s) : A. Gurtov, R. Ludwig
 Filename : draft-gurtov-tsvwg-tcp-delay-spikes-00.txt
 Pages  : 6
 Date  : 26-Feb-02

We suggest a more conservative management of TCP's retransmit timer,
and a more careful response of the TCP sender to duplicate ACKs that
arrive after a timeout. The former reduces the risk of triggering
spurious timeouts, while the latter eliminates potentially
unnecessary retransmits. Although, we believe that these suggestions
are permitted (although not explicitly) by RFC2581 and RFC2988, they
do not seem to be widely known nor deployed in existing TCP
implementations. We therefore want to make implementers aware of
these choices.

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