Title
Evolving TCP.: how hard can it be?
Abstract
Over the last decade TCP has become the de facto "narrow waist" of the Internet -- a one-size-fits-all transport that is poorly suited to the needs of modern applications. As middleboxes have become ubiquitous, it has become nigh impossible for alternative transports to exist and so application developers have come to view opening a TCP socket as the only reliable way to connect to a server. Some recent proposals circumvent this problem by camouflaging new transports so that they appear like TCP to middleboxes. We draw the key lessons from this approach and show how this could lead to a true one-size-fits-all transport: "Polyversal TCP".
Year
DOI
Venue
2012
10.1145/2413247.2413270
StudentWorkshop@CoNEXT
Keywords
Field
DocType
application developer,true one-size-fits-all transport,key lesson,modern application,new transport,evolving tcp,tcp socket,last decade,polyversal tcp,narrow waist,one-size-fits-all transport,api,multipath
Multipath propagation,Computer security,Computer network,Engineering,The Internet
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
3
0.40
4
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Zubair Nabi1235.77
Toby Moncaster2865.43
Anil Madhavapeddy367452.83
Steven Hand45696488.18
Jon Crowcroft5120851252.50