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Utilizing Characteristics of Last Link to Improve TCP Performance

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Overview TCP, perhaps the most widely used transport protocol, was designed for wired links and stationary hosts. But more and more links with different characteristics are used to access the Internet. The variations in link characteristics present different problems to TCP and enhancement of TCP performance over these links remains an active area of research. Since the current core network of the Internet is composed mainly of optical fiber links and high speed routers, the characteristics of the access link (or the last link) usually dominate the characteristics of the end-to-end network path.

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Publisher	National University of Singapore	File Format	PDF
Date Published	April 2005
Format	White Papers
Topics	TCP - IP

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