Name
Abstract | ||
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Before the first valid calculation of the round trip time for a connection, TCP sets an initial value for the retransmission timeout to 3 seconds which, in the case of the first packets getting lost, introduces a long delay. For short transfers, like web traffic, this could have a significant influence on the performance. We performed measurements to investigate how often this happens. As our measurements show, control packets (SYN and SYN/ACK packets) do get lost and delays of 3 seconds or even more (further timeouts) occur. By means of a simple example implementation, we indicate that this problem could be solved. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
|---|---|---|
2009 | 10.1007/978-3-642-01399-7_70 | Networking |
Keywords | Field | DocType |
valid calculation,significant influence,retransmission timeout,initial value,simple example implementation,control packet,ack packet,syn packets,short transfer,long delay,round trip time,web page,network protocol,web pages,measurements | Web traffic,Web page,Computer science,Network packet,Computer network,Retransmission timeout,Real-time computing,Connection management,Initial value problem,Round-trip delay time,Communications protocol | Conference |
Citations | PageRank | References |
3 | 0.43 | 11 |
Authors | ||
3 | ||
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dragana Damjanovic | 1 | 24 | 1.87 |
| Philipp Gschwandtner | 2 | 58 | 7.15 |
| Michael Welzl | 3 | 41 | 4.81 |