Bibliography | Scharf, M.; Floyd, S.; Sarolahti, P.: TCP Flow Control for Fast Startup Schemes: draft-scharf-tcpm-flow-control-quick-start-00.txt (Submitted as Internet-Draft to the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)). University of Stuttgart : Collaborative Research Center SFB 627 (Nexus: World Models for Mobile Context-Based Systems), Technischer Bericht (external). 13 pages, english.
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CR-Schema | C.2.0 (Computer-Communication Networks, General)
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Abstract | This document describes extensions for the flow control of the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) that avoid interactions with fast startup congestion control mechanisms, in particular the Quick-Start TCP extension. Quick-Start is an optional TCP extension that allows to start data transfers with a large congestion window, using feedback of the routers along the path. This can avoid the time consuming Slow-Start, provided that the TCP flow control is not a limiting factor. There are two potential interactions between the TCP flow control and congestion control schemes without the standard Slow-Start: First, receivers might not allocate a sufficiently large buffer space after connection setup, or they may advertise a receive window implicitly assuming the Slow-Start behavior on the sender side. This document therefore provides guidelines for buffer allocation in hosts supporting the Quick-Start extension. Second, the TCP receive window scaling mechanism can prevent fast startups immediately after the initial three-way handshake connection setup. This document describes a simple solution to overcome this problem.
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Full text and other links | pdf on IKR Homepage
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Department(s) | Universität Stuttgart, Institut für Kommunikationsnetze und Rechnersysteme (IKR)
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Project(s) | SFB-627, A1 (Universität Stuttgart, Institut für Kommunikationsnetze und Rechnersysteme (IKR))
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Entry date | January 13, 2010 |
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