Optimizing TCP retransmission timeout

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

Volumn 3421, Issue II, 2005, Pages 133-140

  Kesselman, Alex ^a   Mansour, Yishay ^b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR INFORMATICS   (Germany)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; INTERNET; THROUGHPUT;

INTERNET PATHS; RETRANSMISSION TIMEOUT (RTO); ROUND TRIP TIME (RTT); TIMEOUT MECHANISM;

COMPUTER NETWORKS;

EID: 26844490966     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-31957-3_17     Document Type: Conference Paper

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