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Scalable TCP: improving performance in highspeed wide area networks

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ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review, Volume 33, Issue 2

Pages 83 - 91

https://doi.org/10.1145/956981.956989

Published: 01 April 2003 Publication History

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TCP congestion control can perform badly in highspeed wide area networks because of its slow response with large congestion windows. The challenge for any alternative protocol is to better utilize networks with high bandwidth-delay products in a simple and robust manner without interacting badly with existing traffic. Scalable TCP is a simple sender-side alteration to the TCP congestion window update algorithm. It offers a robust mechanism to improve performance in highspeed wide area networks using traditional TCP receivers. Scalable TCP is designed to be incrementally deployable and behaves identically to traditional TCP stacks when small windows are sufficient. The performance of the scheme is evaluated through experimental results gathered using a Scalable TCP implementation for the Linux operating system and a gigabit transatlantic network. The preliminary results gathered suggest that the deployment of Scalable TCP would have negligible impact on existing network traffic at the same time as improving bulk transfer performance in highspeed wide area networks.

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ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review Volume 33, Issue 2

April 2003

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DOI:10.1145/956981

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