Empirically derived analytic models of wide-area TCP connections
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
Simulation-based comparisons of Tahoe, Reno and SACK TCP
ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review
The performance of TCP/IP for networks with high bandwidth-delay products and random loss
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
An evaluation of TCP with larger initial windows
ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review
Computer Networks
TCP/IP performance over satellite links
IEEE Network: The Magazine of Global Internetworking
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Reliable Transport protocols, such as TCP, are tuned to perform well in terrestrial networks where most segment losses occur because of congestion. However, networks that involve satellite links also suffer from significant losses that are because of bit errors. TCP responds to all losses that are because of bit errors. TCP responds to all losses by invoking congestion control and avoidance algorithms, which result in degraded performance when using a satellite link.In this paper, we propose an Error Notification ACK (ENA) algorithm that distinguishes error segments from losses due to network congestion. We also propose a method for implementation of the algorithm and evaluate the performance of the Tahoe, Reno and SACK TCP algorithms with and without ENA. The results show the performance of the TCP algorithms with ENA to be superior to those without ENA.