Internet Programming & Protocols
CS594            Class 12   10/4/05

Topics

• TCP Reno fast recovery
• TCP NewReno partial ACK
• SACK FACK D-SACK
• lecture slides

Required reading

• text Chapter 11
• Floyd Simulation-based comparisons of Tahoe, Reno, NewReno, and SACK TCP
• on CS lab linux boxes, do man 7 tcp

Related information

• Reno spec email '90
• RFC 2581 TCP congestion control (Reno)
• RFC 2582 NewReno and RFC 3782
• RFC 2018 SACK
• Mathis Forward Acknowledgements FACK and RFC 3517
• burst management rate halving
• RFC 2883 D-SACK
• On Making TCP More Robust to Packet Reordering