Increasing TCP's Initial Congestion Window

With several collaborators I have been investigating the impact of using a larger initial congestion window in TCP for some time now. The proposal is now a standards track RFC. Some pointers to our work:

Mark Allman, Sally Floyd, Craig Partridge. Increasing TCP's Initial Window, October 2002. RFC 3390. Status: Proposed Standard.
Mark Allman. A Web Server's View of the Transport Layer. ACM Computer Communication Review, 30(5), October 2000.
Mark Allman, Sally Floyd, Craig Partridge. Increasing TCP's Initial Window, September 1998. RFC 2414. Status: Obsoleted by RFC 3390.
Mark Allman, Chris Hayes, Shawn Ostermann. An Evaluation of TCP with Larger Initial Windows. ACM Computer Communication Review, 28(3), July 1998.
Mark Allman. Improving TCP Performance Over Satellite Channels. Master's Thesis, Ohio University, June 1997.

(Posted: Fri Oct 25, 2002)