UNIX Network Programming
CS494            Class 14   10/12/99

Topics

• TCP congestion control
• TCP and UDP performance
• odds and ends
• lecture slides (postscript,219K)

Handouts

• An analysis of TCP processing overhead

Required reading

• Text: 20.3-20.5, 7.10, pages 191-193
• paper Improving HTTP latency or postscript
• paper An analysis of TCP processing overhead (handout)

Additional reading

• Text: chapter 27, 13.3-13.5, 15.1-15.2, 22.1-22.2
• RFC 1323 window scale, wrapped seq. numbers
• RFC 2018 selective ACK
• RFC 2001 slow start, fast recovery, fast retransmit
• RFC 2525 TCP implementation problems
• Stevens' TCP/IP Illustrated vol 1