Observing TCP dynamics in real networks
SIGCOMM '92 Conference proceedings on Communications architectures & protocols
Simulation-based comparisons of Tahoe, Reno and SACK TCP
ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review
Improving the start-up behavior of a congestion control scheme for TCP
Conference proceedings on Applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computer communications
Forward acknowledgement: refining TCP congestion control
Conference proceedings on Applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computer communications
Automated packet trace analysis of TCP implementations
SIGCOMM '97 Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM '97 conference on Applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computer communication
On making TCP more robust to packet reordering
ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review
Source-level IP packet bursts: causes and effects
Proceedings of the 3rd ACM SIGCOMM conference on Internet measurement
RR-TCP: A Reordering-Robust TCP with DSACK
ICNP '03 Proceedings of the 11th IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols
Estimating loss rates with TCP
ACM SIGMETRICS Performance Evaluation Review
Notes on burst mitigation for transport protocols
ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review
A scalable load balancer for forwarding internet traffic: exploiting flow-level burstiness
Proceedings of the 2005 ACM symposium on Architecture for networking and communications systems
Reducing the TCP acknowledgment frequency
ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review
Achieving 10Gbps network processing: are we there yet?
HiPC'08 Proceedings of the 15th international conference on High performance computing
Receive side coalescing for accelerating TCP/IP processing
HiPC'06 Proceedings of the 13th international conference on High Performance Computing
Trickle: rate limiting YouTube video streaming
USENIX ATC'12 Proceedings of the 2012 USENIX conference on Annual Technical Conference
Bullet trains: a study of NIC burst behavior at microsecond timescales
Proceedings of the ninth ACM conference on Emerging networking experiments and technologies
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Periodically in the transport protocol research community, the idea of introducing a burst mitigation strategy is voiced. In this paper we assess the prevalence and implications of bursts in the context of real TCP traffic in order to better inform a decision on whether TCP's congestion control algorithms need to incorporate some form of burst suppression. After analyzing traffic from three networks, we find that bursts are fairly rare and only large bursts (of hundreds of segments) cause loss in practice.