Craig Partridge, Dennis Rockwell, Mark Allman, Rajesh Krishnan, James Sterbenz. A Swifter Start for TCP. Technical Report No. 8339, BBN Technologies, March 2002.
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Abstract:

While TCP is capable of adapting its data rate to almost any capacity, it has long been known that TCP takes a long time to achieve full data rates on paths with high capacity (especially links with long delays, e.g. satellite links). In this paper we present a new way for TCP to estimate available network capacity and swiftly scale its transmission rate at the start of a TCP connection. While the method does estimate capacity, as predicted by prior simulation [12], the limited studies reported in this paper suggest it performs slightly worse than regular TCP over a low-delay modest-bandwidth Internet path.

BibTeX:

@techreport{PRAKS02,
    author      =        "Craig Partridge and Dennis Rockwell and Mark Allman and Rajesh Krishnan and James Sterbenz",
    title       =        "{A Swifter Start for TCP}",
    institution =        "BBN Technologies",
    year        =        2002,
    number      =        "TR-8339",
    month       =        mar,
}