On making TCP more robust to packet reordering

Computer Communication Review

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 20-30

  Blanton, Ethan ^a   Allman, Mark ^b  

^a OHIO UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BBN TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERNET PATHS; PACKET REORDERING; RETRANSMISSION ALGORITHMS; TCP PERFORMANCE;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER NETWORKS; CONTROL SYSTEMS; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; INTERNET;

NETWORK PROTOCOLS;

EID: 33645779277     PISSN: 01464833     EISSN: 01464833     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/510726.510728     Document Type: Conference Paper

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