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Very good reading. I'd also recommend Van Jacobson's talk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqGEMQveoqg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqGEMQveoqg You'll learn s
by pololee 9y ago
Very good reading.
I'd also recommend Van Jacobson's talk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqGEMQveoqg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqGEMQveoqg
You'll learn some good stories about internet history.
He has done a lot of work on TCP congestion control, especially the fast retransmission idea by using duplicate ACKs.
There is an interesting thing about TCP. A lot of popular TCP implementation use city names, e.g. TCP Reno, TCP Vegas, TCP Westwood.
TCP Westwood is a very interesting implementation. It has very intelligent way to estimate bandwidth, (not just based on duplicate ACKs). You may find this paper very interesting.
http://netlab.cs.ucla.edu/internal/wiki-internal/files/rohit2004sigcomm.pdf http://netlab.cs.ucla.edu/internal/wiki-internal/files/rohit...