Paper Info
Title
Forward RTO-Recovery (F-RTO): An Algorithm for Detecting Spurious Retransmission Timeouts with TCP and the Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP)
Abstract
Spurious retransmission timeouts cause suboptimal TCP performance because they often result in unnecessary retransmission of the last window of data. This document describes the F-RTO detection algorithm for detecting spurious TCP retransmission timeouts. F-RTO is a TCP sender-only algorithm that does not require any TCP options to operate. After retransmitting the first unacknowledged segment triggered by a timeout, the F-RTO algorithm of the TCP sender monitors the incoming acknowledgments to determine whether the timeout was spurious. It then decides whether to send new segments or retransmit unacknowledged segments. The algorithm effectively helps to avoid additional unnecessary retransmissions and thereby improves TCP performance in the case of a spurious timeout. The F-RTO algorithm can also be applied to the Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP).
Year
Venue
Keywords
2005
RFC
stream control transmission protocol
Field
DocType
Volume
TCP Westwood plus,TCP delayed acknowledgment,Computer science,Computer network,Algorithm,Real-time computing,TCP acceleration,Zeta-TCP,TCP tuning,TCP Friendly Rate Control,TCP global synchronization,TCP Westwood
Journal
4138
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
12
1.32
0
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
pasi sarolahti1121.99
markku kojo230729.59