F-RTO: An enhanced recovery algorithm for TCP retransmission timeouts

Computer Communication Review

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 51-63

  Sarolahti, Pasi ^a   Kojo, Markku ^b   Raatikainen, Kimmo ^b  

^a NOKIA RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PACKET LOSSES; RETRANSMISSION TIMEOUTS (RTO); SPURIOUS RETRANSMISSION TIMEOUT; TCP SENDER;

ALGORITHMS; CONGESTION CONTROL (COMMUNICATION); PACKET NETWORKS; POWER TRANSMISSION; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE; TELECOMMUNICATION LINKS; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

NETWORK PROTOCOLS;

EID: 0842349370     PISSN: 01464833     EISSN: 01464833     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/956981.956987     Document Type: Review

References (24)

1. M. Allman. A Web Server's View of the Transport Layer. ACM Computer Communication Review, 30(5), October 2000.
2. M. Allman, H. Balakrishnan, and S. Floyd. Enhancing TCP's Loss Recovery Using Limited Transmit. RFC 3042, January 2001.
3. M. Allman and V. Paxson. On Estimating End-to-End Network Path Properties. In Proceedings of ACM SIGCOMM '99, September 1999.
4. M. Allman, V. Paxson, and W. Stevens. TCP Congestion Control. RFC 2581, April 1999.
5. E. Blanton and M. Allman. On Making TCP More Robust to Packet Reordering. ACM Computer Communication Review, 32(1), January 2002.
6. E. Blanton, M. Allman, K. Fall, and L. Wang. A Conservative Selective Acknowledgement (SACK)-based Loss Recovery Algorithm for TCP. RFC 3517, April 2003.
7. D. Borman, R. Braden, and V. Jacobson. TCP Extensions for High Performance. RFC 1323, May 1992.
8. J. Cai and D. J. Goodman. General packet radio service in GSM. IEEE Communications Magazine, pages 122-131, October 1997.
9. M. Degermark, B. Nordgren, and S. Pink. IP Header Compression. RFC 2507, February 1999.
10. S. Floyd and T. Henderson. The NewReno Modification to TCP's Fast Recovery Algorithm. RFC 2582, April 1999.
11. S. Floyd, J. Mahdavi, M. Mathis, and M. Podolsky. An Extension to the Selective Acknowledgment (SACK) Option for TCP. RFC 2883, July 2000.
12. A. Gurtov and R. Ludwig. Response to Spurious Retransmission Timeouts. In Proceedings of IEEE Infocom 2003.
13. A. Gurtov and R. Ludwig. Evaluating the Eifel Algorithm for TCP in a GPRS Network. In Proceedings of European Wireless '02, February 2002.
14. V. Jacobson. Compressing TCP/IP headers for low-speed serial links. RFC 1144, February 1990.
15. F. Khafizov and M. Yavuz. Running TCP over IS-2000. In Proceedings of IEEE ICC 2002, April 2002. To appear.
16. M. Kojo, A. Gurtov, J. Manner, P. Sarolahti, T. Alanko, and K. Raatikainen. Seawind: a Wireless Network Emulator. In Proceedings of 11th GI/ITG Conference on Measuring, Modelling and Evaluation of Computer and Communication Systems, pages 151-166, Aachen, Germany, September 2001. VDE Verlag.
17. A. Konrad, B.Y. Zhao, A. Joseph, and R. Ludwig. A Markov-Based Channel Model Algorithm for Wireless Networks. In Proceedings of ACM MSWiM 2001, pages 28-36, Rome, Italy, July 2001.
18. R. Ludwig and R. H. Katz. The Eifel Algorithm: Making TCP Robust Against Spurious Retransmissions. ACM Computer Communication Review, 30(1), January 2000.
19. R. Ludwig and K. Sklower. The Eifel Retransmission Timer. ACM Computer Communication Review, 30(3), July 2000.
20. M. Mathis, J. Mahdavi, S. Floyd, and A. Romanow. TCP Selective Acknowledgement Options. RFC 2018, October 1996.
21. G. Montenegro, S. Dawkins, M. Kojo, V. Magret, and N. Vaidya. Long Thin Networks. RFC 2757, January 2000.
22. V. Paxson and M. Allman. Computing TCP's Retransmission Timer. RFC 2988, November 2000.
23. J. Postel. Transmission Control Protocol. RFC 793, September 1981.
24. P. Sarolahti and A. Kuznetsov. Congestion Control in Linux TCP. In Proceedings of Usenix 2002/Freenix Track, pages 49-62, Monterey, CA, USA, June 2002.