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TCP Loss Probe (TLP): An Algorithm for Fast Recovery of Tail Losses
draft-dukkipati-tcpm-tcp-loss-probe-00

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Authors Nandita Dukkipati , Neal Cardwell , Yuchung Cheng , Matt Mathis
Last updated 2013-01-10 (Latest revision 2012-07-09)
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Abstract

Retransmission timeouts are detrimental to application latency, especially for short transfers such as Web transactions where timeouts can often take longer than all of the rest of a transaction. The primary cause of retransmission timeouts are lost segments at the tail of transactions. This document describes an experimental algorithm for TCP to quickly recover lost segments at the end of transactions or when an entire window of data or acknowledgments are lost. TCP Loss Probe (TLP) is a sender-only algorithm that allows the transport to recover tail losses through fast recovery as opposed to lengthy retransmission timeouts. If a connection is not receiving any acknowledgments for a certain period of time, TLP transmits the last unacknowledged segment (loss probe). In the event of a tail loss in the original transmissions, the acknowledgment from the loss probe triggers SACK/FACK based fast recovery. TLP effectively avoids long timeouts and thereby improves TCP performance.

Authors

Nandita Dukkipati
Neal Cardwell
Yuchung Cheng
Matt Mathis

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