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....advantage is practically useful in the case of receivers that delay sending ACKs by acknowledging every other segment. The obvious disadvantage of this proposition is the potential risk of causing congestion at the start of a connection. However, one study conducted by Shepard and Partridge [SP98] showed that a slow start with four segments is no worse than another with only two segments after two RTTs. Another simulation study by Poduri and Nichols [PN98] proved that this large initial window extension is useful for short lived connections in terms of their response time, without ....

T. Shepard and C. Partridge. When TCP starts up with four packets into only three bu#ers. RFC 2416, September 1998.

....number of buffers can be allocated in the last hop router per user. This buffer space is shared among connections of the same user, but there is no interference between the connections of different users. A similar network architecture was considered, when three buffers are available per user [25]. The wireless link in our environment imposes corruption losses. We assume that all data with transmission errors are detected and discarded at the wireless link. We also assume no error recovery and no variable delays on the link. Thus, different patterns of link errors is the only ....

T. Shepard and C. Partridge. When TCP starts up with four packets into only three buffers. IETF RFC 2416, Sept. 1998. 24

....number of buffers can be allocated in the last hop router per user. This buffer space is shared among connections of the same user, but there is no interference between the connections of different users. A similar network architecture was considered, when three buffers are available per user [SP98] The wireless link in our environment imposes corruption losses. We assume that all data with transmission errors are detected and discarded at the wireless link. We also assume no error recovery and no variable delays on the link. We do not include the Internet into our environment in the rest ....

....possible disadvantage for an individual connection in an increased probability of a congestion loss in the connection startup when the router buffer size is small. A study has been made to evaluate a connection with the initial window of four segments when the router buffer size is three packets [SP98] The study shows that the four packet start is no worse than what happens after two RTTs in the normal slow start with the initial window of two segments. Another simulation study has evaluated the effect of the increased initial window on the network [PN98] The study concludes that the ....

T. Shepard and C. Partridge. When TCP Starts Up With Four Packets Into Only Three Buffers. IETF RFC 2416, September 1998.

....modify or or eliminate slow start in a wireless environment. 4.3.1 Larger Initial Window Full slow start, with an initial window of one segment, can be a time consuming bandwidth adaptation procedure over LTNs. Recent proposals suggest starting off with an initial window larger than one segment [FAP97, SP97]. In current simulations with an intial window of two segments, this proposal does not contribute significantly to packet drop rates, and it has the added benefit of improving initial response times when the peer node delays acknowledgements during slow start (see next proposal) We expect the ....

Tim Shepard and Craig Partridge. "When TCP Starts Up With Four Packets Into Only Three Buffers," September 1998. RFC 2416.

....than one SMSS. Simulation studies have shown that this modification can lead to better performance (up to 25 ) 4] especially for short flows. Concerns were raised, however, regarding the increased possibility of dropped segments, in particular at congested routers or links. Shepard and Partridge [68] studied the case where a TCP receiver is connected to the Internet over a 9.6 Kbps link, through a router with enough buffer space to accommodate only three segments, each containing 1024 bytes. When the sender uses an IW of four segments it is guaranteed that it will experience a drop in the ....

Shepard, T., and Partridge, C., When TCP Starts Up With Four Packets Into Only Three Buffers. RFC 2415, Experimental, September 1998.

....than one SMSS. Simulation studies have shown that this modification can lead to better performance (up to 25 ) 4] especially for short flows. Concerns were raised, however, regarding the increased possibility of dropped segments, in particular at congested routers or links. Shepard and Partridge [54] studied the case where a TCP receiver is connected to the Internet over a 9.6 Kbps link, through a router with enough buffer space to accommodate only 3 segments, each containing 1024 bytes. When the sender uses an IW of 4 segments it is guaranteed that it will experience a drop in this initial ....

Shepard, T., and Partridge, C., When TCP Starts Up With Four Packets Into Only Three Buffers. RFC 2415, Experimental, September 1998.

....cwnd over a satellite network may be overcome using a larger initial cwnd [14] or using the byte count of the ACKed sequence numbers rather than ACK count itself to increase cwnd. However, these modifications are not widely accepted, since they may impact the stability of TCP over a large network [15]. In addition, since TCP implementations exist on end systems (i.e. a part of the installed software on all user computers) modifications are undesirable and difficult to manage. Therefore, alternative solutions to reduce ACK Congestion are needed to suit the characteristics of a DVB Network. ....

T. Shepard and C. Partridge, 'When TCP Starts Up With Four Packets Into Only Three Buffers', IETF-DRAFT, 1997.

....and what limits its performance the network, the protocol specification, a particular TCP implementation, or a particular application. For example, there are several current proposals for changing TCP that we can evaluate analytically: increasing TCP s initial window size [SAP98, AFP98, PN98, SP98, AHO98] sharing information about network path characteristics between TCP connections [Tou97, BPS 98, SSK97] changes in the way TCP increases its sending rate in response to acknowledgments [HSMK98, All98] and new TCP like transport protocols [GCMW98] ffl To improve networks or make ....

....fixed initial window size, w. The TCP specification [SAP98, Bra89, Ste97] requires that w is one MSS, though some implementations use 2 MSS, and there are proposals to use a window of up to 3 or 4 MSS, as long as the combined size of the segments does not exceed 4380 bytes [SAP98, AFP98, PN98, SP98, AHO98] When the initial window of data reaches the destination, the destination will respond with some number of acknowledgment packets. The receiver may delay its acknowledgment(s) let the average delay for the first ACK be t delack . This value varies between implementations, and some ....

T. Shepard and C. Partridge. When TCP starts up with four packets into only three buffers. RFC 2416, September 1998.

....long. The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) has approved as experimental a proposal [8] to increase the initial value of the congestion window to four packets instead of one. Some preliminary work suggests that this does not significantly degrade performance even in lowbandwidth situations [9, 10]. A di#erent problem is seen during the congestion avoidance phase. In this phase the window grows by only one segment every round trip time, and so window growth is much slower than in slow start. Thus, if the congestion window is too small when congestion avoidance is entered, the satellite ....

Tim Shepard and Craig Partridge. When TCP starts up with four packets into only three bu#ers. RFC 2416, September 1998.

....[18] like scheme to estimate the network available bandwidth, which does not work well for FIFO networks. Allman et al. propose [2] to increase the initial window (and optionally the restart window) to roughly 4K bytes. There have been various studies in support of [2] such as [3] and [32]. However, since they use a fixed initial window for all connections, the value has to be conservative, and the improvement is still inadequate in situations where the bandwidth delay product is much larger. TCP control block interdependence [34] specifies temporal reusing of TCP state, including ....

T. Shepard and C. Partridge, "When TCP Starts Up With Four Packets Into Only Three Buffers," RFC-2416, Sept. 1998.

....ways. The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few. 4.3.1 Larger Initial Window Full slow start, with an initial window of one segment, is a time consuming bandwidth adaptation procedure over LTNs. Recent proposals suggest starting off with an initial window larger than one segment [FAP98, SP97, AHO98]. In current simulations with an initial window of two segments, this proposal does not contribute significantly to packet drop rates, and it has the added benefit of improving initial response times when the peer device delays acknowledgements during slow start (see next proposal) We expect the ....

Tim Shepard and Craig Partridge. When TCP Starts Up With Four Packets Into Only Three Buffers, July 1997. Internet-Draft draft-shepard-TCP-4-packets-3-buff-00.txt (work in progress).

....mechanism for increasing TCP s initial window to 3 or 4 segments (depending on the segment size) Increasing the initial window provides the most benefit for short flows and low bandwidth network paths. Several researchers have studied the impact of using a larger initial window [AHO98, PN98, SP98] All98] suggests using a limited byte counting (LBC) algorithm to mitigate the impact of delayed acknowledgments on TCP performance. TCP s delayed acknowledgment strategy [Bra89] has been shown to reduce the performance of TCP transfers by slowing the growth of cwnd [Pax97, All98, PAD 99] ....

Tim Shepard and Craig Partridge. When TCP Starts Up With Four Packets Into Only Three Buffers, September 1998. RFC 2416.

....A second set of experiments explored TCP performance over dialup modem links. In experiments over a 28.8 bps dialup channel [All97a, AHO98] a four segment initial window decreased the transfer time of a 16KB file by roughly 10 , with no accompanying increase in the drop rate. A simulation study [RFC2416] investigated the effects of using a larger initial window on a host connected by a slow modem link and a router with a 3 packet buffer. The study concluded that for the scenario investigated, the use of larger initial windows was not harmful to TCP performance. Finally, All00] illustrates that ....

Shepard, T. and C. Partridge, "When TCP Starts Up With Four Packets Into Only Three Buffers", RFC 2416, September 1998. RFC 3390 Increasing TCP's Initial Window October 2002

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