The Eifel algorithm: Making TCP robust against spurious retransmissions

Computer Communication Review

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 30-36

  Ludwig, Reiner ^a   Katz, Randy H ^b  

^a ERICSSON RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 0141700956     PISSN: 01464833     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/505688.505692     Document Type: Article

References (26)

1. M. Allman, V. Paxson, W. Stevens, TCP Congestion Control, RFC 2581, April 1999.
2. M. Allman, V. Paxson, On Estimating End-to-End Network Path Properties, In Proceedings of ACM SIGCOMM 99.
3. S. Baucke, Leistungsbewertung und Optimierung von TCP für den Einsatz im Mobilfunknetz GSM, Diploma Thesis, CS-Dept. 4, Aachen University of Technology, Germany, April 1997.
4. J.C.R. Bennett, C. Partridge, N. Shectman, Packet Reordering is Not Pathological Network Behavior, Appears in IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, December '99.
5. M. Degermark, B. Nordgren, S. Pink, IP Header Compression, RFC 2507, February 1999.
6. S. Floyd, J. Mahdavi, M. Mathis, M. Podolsky, A. Romanow, An Extension to the Selective Acknowledgement (SACK) Option for TCP, work in progress, August 1999.
7. ISO/IEC, Information processing systems - Open Systems Interconnection - Connection oriented transport protocol specification, International Standard ISO/IEC 8073, December 1988.
8. V. Jacobson, Congestion Avoidance and Control, In Proceedings of ACM SIGCOMM 88.
9. V. Jacobson, Modified TCP Congestion Avoidance Algorithm, end2end-interest mailing list (ftp://ftp.isi.edu/ end2end/end2end-interest-1990.mail), April 30, 1990.
10. V. Jacobson, C. Leres, S. McCanne, tcpdump, available at http://ee.lbl.gov/.
11. V. Jacobson, R. Braden, D. Borman, TCP Extensions for High Performance, RFC 1323, May 1992.
12. V. Jacobson, Compressing TCP/IP Headers for Low-Speed Serial Links, RFC 1144, February 1990.
13. P. Karn, C. Partridge, Improving Round-Trip Time Estimates in Reliable Transport Protocols, In Proceedings of ACM SIGCOMM 87.
14. R. Ludwig, B. Rathonyi, A. Konrad, K. Oden, A. Joseph, Multi-Layer Tracing of TCP over a Reliable Wireless Link, In Proceedings of ACM SIGMETRICS 99.
15. R. Ludwig, A Case for Flow-Adaptive Wireless Links, Technical Report UCB//CSD-99-1053, University of California at Berkeley, May 1999.
16. R. Ludwig, A. Konrad, A. D. Joseph, R. H. Katz, Optimizing the End-to-End Performance of Reliable Flows over Wireless Links, Appears in Wireless Networks (Special issue: Selected papers from ACM/ IEEE MOBICOM 99).
17. R. Ludwig, TCP-Eifel, Patches for FreeBSD, available at http://iceberg.cs.berkeley.edu, October 1999.
18. M. Mathis, J. Mahdavi, S. Floyd, A. Romanow, TCP Selective Acknowledgement Options, RFC 2018, October 1996.
19. M. Mathis, J. Semke, J. Mahdavi, T. Ott, The Macroscopic Behavior of the TCP Congestion Avoidance Algorithm, Computer Communications Review, 27(3), July 1997.
20. S. McCanne, V. Jacobson, The BSD Packet Filter: A New Architecture for User-Level Packet Capture, In Proceedings of the 1993 Winter USENIX Conference.
21. V. Paxson, End-to-End Routing Behavior in the Internet, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, Vol.5, No.5, pp. 601-615, October 1997.
22. J. Postel, Internet Protocol, RFC 791, September 1981.
23. J. Postel, Transmission Control Protocol, RFC793, September 1981.
24. W. Simpson, The Point-to-Point Protocol, RFC 1661, July 1994.
25. W. R. Stevens, TCP/IP Illustrated, Volume 1 (The Protocols), Addison Wesley, November 1994.
26. G. R. Wright, W. R. Stevens, TCP/IP Illustrated, Volume 2 (The Implementation), Addison Wesley, January 1995.