Abstract

When used to high-bandwidth interval creation networks designed to transmit association information at tens of thousands of Megabits per second (Mbps), the tried-and-true TCP has shown to be woefully inefficient. When congestion reaches a certain threshold, the algorithm used to control it in the Transmission Control Protocol reduces the size of the congestion window to half of its current value, piqueing interest in an additive increase methodology that could be too slow for the alluring ease of a vastly greater magnitude of usable bandwidth. This paper unveils a revised version of the TCP protocol that improves upon its predecessor in a number of key respects, including stability, fairness, bandwidth utilisation, performance, and throughput, and is designed for use in high-speed networks.

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