With Sally Floyd, Amit Jain and Pasi Sarolahti I am working on a method to make TCP startup more rapidly (with the consent of the nodes on the path).

Papers:

• Pasi Sarolahti, Mark Allman, Sally Floyd. Determining an Appropriate Sending Rate Over an Underutilized Network Path. Computer Networks Special Issue on Protocols for Fast, Long-Distance Networks, 51(7), May 2007.

• Sally Floyd, Mark Allman, Amit Jain, Pasi Sarolahti. Quick-Start for TCP and IP, January 2007. RFC 4782.

More information and references can be found on the Quick-Start web page.

Also, this work is related to the Jump Start work, which takes the approach of wondering whether a startup phase is needed at all. That work can be found here.

(Posted: Thu May 26, 2005; Updated: Sat Jan 27, 2007)