Re: How to Quicken TCP Re-transmission?


Bruce-

Alberto Medina, Mark Allman, Sally Floyd. Measuring the Evolution of
Transport Protocols in the Internet. ACM Computer Communication
Review, 35(2), April 2005.
http://www.icir.org/mallman/papers/tcp-evo-ccr05.ps

What a trip, I just read this paper on the train to work this morning.
FWIW, I thought this was a well-done study on an interesting topic.

Thanks!

A question and a nitpick:

Did you try doing any stack fingerprinting to get some idea of the mix
of TCP/IP stacks among the servers / clients you examined?

Nope. We conjectured on occasion that tbit could form the makings of a
pretty good OS fingerprinting tool, itself. But, we never pursued that
or used any other fingerprinting techniques. Sorry.

The percentages in the commentary on Table 5 in the text (second column
of p. 41 in the CCR printing) are sometimes one-off from the percentages
actually shown in Table 5. It took me several tries to get through the
"huh?!?"-ness of this, though the lack of caffeine in my bloodstream at
the time might have been a contributing factor. :-)

Ugh. Sorry about that ... :-(

allman



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