Mark Allman / ICSI @mallman_icsi

Mark Allman, Sally Floyd, Craig Partridge. Increasing TCP's Initial Window, September 1998. RFC 2414.
Status: Obsoleted by RFC 3390.
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Abstract:

This document specifies an increase in the permitted initial window for TCP from one segment to roughly 4K bytes. This document discusses the advantages and disadvantages of such a change, outlining experimental results that indicate the costs and benefits of such a change to TCP.

BibTeX:

@misc{AFP98,
    author  =        "Mark Allman and Sally Floyd and Craig Partridge",
    title   =        "{Increasing TCP's Initial Window}",
    year    =        1998,
    month   =        sep,
    note    =        "RFC 2414",
}
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