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Fragmentation Considered Harmful (1987)
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| Venue: | In ACM SIGCOMM |
| Citations: | 189 - 9 self |
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@INPROCEEDINGS{Kent87fragmentationconsidered,
author = {Christopher A. Kent and Jeffrey C. Mogul},
title = {Fragmentation Considered Harmful},
booktitle = {In ACM SIGCOMM},
year = {1987},
pages = {390--401}
}
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Abstract
Internetworks can be built from many different kinds of networks, with varying limits on maximum packet size. Throughput is usually maximized when the largest possible packet is sent; unfortunately, some routes can carry only very small packets. The IP protocol allows a gateway to fragment a packet if it is too large to be transmitted. Fragmentation is at best a necessary evil; it can lead to poor performance or complete communication failure. There are a variety of ways to reduce the likelihood of fragmentation; some can be incorporated into existing IP implementations without changes in protocol specifications. Others require new protocols, or modifications to existing protocols. This paper is a revised version of one published in Proceedings of Frontiers in Computer Communications Technology, ACM SIGCOMM '87, Stowe, Vermont, August, 1987. Permission to copy without fee all or part of this material is granted provided that the copies are not made or distributed for direct commercial advantage, the ACM copyright notice and the title of the publication and its date appear, and notice is given that copying is by permission of the Association for Computing Machinery. To copy otherwise, or to republish, requires a fee and/or specific permission. i 1.
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