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Incrementally Deployable Prevention to TCP Attack With Misbehaving Receivers
Overview In a TCP connection, selfish receiver has incentive to increase its own transmission rate at the expense of other receivers. Whether it is downloading a web page or transferring a file, most receivers prefer the server to focus only on their transmission and ignore those of other receivers. Unfortunately, the current TCP implementation can be easily exploited for a malicious receiver to gain an unfair amount of bandwidth. This is a problem in TCP implementations because the only good estimate of congestion from a sender's perspective comes from a receiver's acknowledgment. As a result, a receiver can mislead the sender's congestion control through spurious ACK packets. TCP is especially vulnerable because of it implicitly assumes that end users are well behaved.
| Publisher | Carnegie Mellon University | File Format | |
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| Date Published | December 2004 | ||
| Format | White Papers | ||
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