Several colleagues and I are thinking about new ways to make TCP robust to packet reordering in networks.

People: Ethan Blanton, Sumitha Bhandarkar, A. L. Narasimha Reddy

Papers

Sumitha Bhandarkar, A. L. Narasimha Reddy, Mark Allman, Ethan Blanton. Improving the Robustness of TCP to Non-Congestion Events, August 2006. RFC 4653.
Ethan Blanton, Robert Dimond, Mark Allman. Practices for TCP Senders in the Face of Segment Reordering, February 2003. Internet-Draft draft-blanton-tcp-reordering-00.txt (work in progress).
Ethan Blanton, Mark Allman. On Making TCP More Robust to Packet Reordering. ACM Computer Communication Review, 32(1), January 2002.

Talks

Mark Allman. On Packet Reordering and TCP Performance. NASA GRC 5610 Research Retreat. May 2002. Slides available.

(Posted: Tue Sep 24, 2002; Updated: Fri Sep 1, 2006)