Window Validation", RFC 2861, June 2000.
[RFC3522] Ludwig, R. and M. Meyer, "The Eifel Detection Algorithm for
TCP", RFC 3522, April 2003.
[RFC2988] Paxson, V. and M. Allman, "Computing TCP’s Retransmission
Timer", RFC 2988, November 2000.
[RFC793] Postel, J., "Transmission Control Protocol", STD 7, RFC
793, September 1981.
[RFC3168] Ramakrishnan, K., Floyd, S., and D. Black, "The Addition of
Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN) to IP", RFC 3168,
September 2001.
7.2. Informative References
[RFC3042] Allman, M., Balakrishnan, H., and S. Floyd, "Enhancing
TCP’s Loss Recovery Using Limited Transmit", RFC 3042,
January 2001.
[AAAB04] Allman, M., Avrachenkov, K., Ayesta, U., and J. Blanton,
Early Retransmit for TCP and SCTP, Work in Progress, July
2004.
[BA02] Blanton, E. and M. Allman, On Making TCP More Robust to
Packet Reordering, ACM Computer Communication Review, Vol.
32, No. 1, January 2002.
[RFC3708] Blanton, E. and M. Allman, "Using TCP Duplicate Selective
Acknowledgement (DSACKs) and Stream Control Transmission
Protocol (SCTP) Duplicate Transmission Sequence Numbers
(TSNs) to Detect Spurious Retransmissions", RFC 3708,
February 2004.
[RFC3517] Blanton, E., Allman, M., Fall, K., and L. Wang, "A
Conservative Selective Acknowledgment (SACK)-based Loss
Recovery Algorithm for TCP", RFC 3517, April 2003.
[EL04] Ekstrom, H. and R. Ludwig, The Peak-Hopper: A New End-to-
End Retransmission Timer for Reliable Unicast Transport, In
Proceedings of IEEE INFOCOM 04, March 2004.
[RFC2883] Floyd, S., Mahdavi, J., Mathis, M., and M. Podolsky, "An
Extension to the Selective Acknowledgement (SACK) Option
for TCP", RFC 2883, July 2000.
[GL02] Gurtov, A. and R. Ludwig, Evaluating the Eifel Algorithm
for TCP in a GPRS Network, In Proceedings of the European
Wireless Conference, February 2002.
[GL03] Gurtov, A. and R. Ludwig, Responding to Spurious Timeouts
in TCP, In Proceedings of IEEE INFOCOM 03, April 2003.
[Jac88] Jacobson, V., Congestion Avoidance and Control, In
Proceedings of ACM SIGCOMM 88.
[RFC1323] Jacobson, V., Braden, R., and D. Borman, "TCP Extensions
for High Performance", RFC 1323, May 1992.
[KP87] Karn, P. and C. Partridge, Improving Round-Trip Time
Estimates in Reliable Transport Protocols, In Proceedings
of ACM SIGCOMM 87.
[LK00] Ludwig, R. and R. H. Katz, The Eifel Algorithm: Making TCP
Robust Against Spurious Retransmissions, ACM Computer
Communication Review, Vol. 30, No. 1, January 2000.
[SK04] Sarolahti, P. and M. Kojo, F-RTO: An Algorithm for
Detecting Spurious Retransmission Timeouts with TCP and
SCTP, Work in Progress, November 2004.
[WS95] Wright, G. R. and W. R. Stevens, TCP/IP Illustrated, Volume
2 (The Implementation), Addison Wesley, January 1995.
[Zh86] Zhang, L., Why TCP Timers Don’t Work Well, In Proceedings
of ACM SIGCOMM 88.
Authors’ Addresses
Reiner Ludwig
Ericsson Research (EDD)
Ericsson Allee 1
52134 Herzogenrath, Germany
EMail: Reiner.Ludwig@ericsson.com
Andrei Gurtov
Helsinki Institute for Information Technology (HIIT)
P.O. Box 9800, FIN-02015
HUT, Finland
EMail: andrei.gurtov@cs.helsinki.fi
Homepage: http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/u/gurtov
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