Analysis of Next Generation TCP

Halliday, K ; Hurst, A ; Nelson, J

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

关键词: 99 General And Miscellaneous//Mathematics, Computing, And Information Science;    Computer Networks;    Stability;    Reliability;    Design;   

DOI  :  10.2172/15014756
RP-ID  :  UCRL-TR-208615
RP-ID  :  W-7405-ENG-48
RP-ID  :  15014756

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来源: UNT Digital Library

【 摘 要 】

The Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) has been around for around 30 years, and in that time computer networks have increased in speed and reliability many times over. TCP has done very well to maintain stability and avoid collapse from congestion in the Internet with this incredible increase in speed. But as the speed of networks continues to increase, some assumptions about the underlying network that influenced the design of TCP may no longer hold valid. Additionally, modern networks often span many different types of links. For example, one end-to-end transmission may traverse both an optical link (high-bandwidth, low-loss) and a wireless network (low-bandwidth, high loss). TCP does not perform well in these situations. This survey will examine some of the reasons for this, focusing on high-bandwidth networks, and offer some solutions that have been proposed to fix these problems. This paper assumes basic knowledge of the TCP protocol.