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Trends in TCP/IP Retransmissions and Resets
Overview As the Internet grows larger, measuring and characterizing its dynamics becomes essential for purposes ranging from the optimization of future network equipment to modeling the effects of new protocols on the existing traffic mix. One important aspect of Internet connections is bandwidth utilization with data sent using the TCP protocol. This paper discusses findings from a study of 65,535 TCP flows between 8083 Internet sites. The paper looks into two major bandwidth utilization problems: HTTP connections reset unnecessarily by impatient users and bandwidth wasted on retransmissions. For HTTP connections, it provides an algorithm to distinguish a reset of an impatient user from a network reset. For bandwidth wasted, the amount of data retransmitted is calculated and the goodput and throughput per flow is analyzed.
| Publisher | University of California | File Format | |
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| Date Published | March 2001 | ||
| Format | White Papers | ||
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