Performance problems in BSD4. 4TCP

Authors:
Lawrence S. Brakmo;Larry L. Peterson
Affiliations:
Department of Computer Science, University of Arizona, Tuscon, AZ;Department of Computer Science, University of Arizona, Tuscon, AZ
Venue:
ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review
Year:
1995

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Abstract

This paper describes problems in the BSD 4.4-Lite version of TCP (some of which are also present in earlier versions, such as the Net2 implementation of TCP) and proposes fixes that result in a 21% increase in throughput under realistic conditions.