On estimating end-to-end network path properties
Proceedings of the conference on Applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computer communication
A Markov-based channel model algorithm for wireless networks
MSWIM '01 Proceedings of the 4th ACM international workshop on Modeling, analysis and simulation of wireless and mobile systems
The Eifel retransmission timer
ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review
A web server's view of the transport layer
ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review
The Eifel algorithm: making TCP robust against spurious retransmissions
ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review
On making TCP more robust to packet reordering
ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review
Congestion Control in Linux TCP
Proceedings of the FREENIX Track: 2002 USENIX Annual Technical Conference
General packet radio service in GSM
IEEE Communications Magazine
Lifetime packet discard for efficient real-time transport over cellular links
ACM SIGMOBILE Mobile Computing and Communications Review
Designing DCCP: congestion control without reliability
Proceedings of the 2006 conference on Applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computer communications
Proactively controlling round-trip time variation and packet drops using SmoothTCP-q
QShine '06 Proceedings of the 3rd international conference on Quality of service in heterogeneous wired/wireless networks
A Smart TCP Acknowledgment Approach for Multihop Wireless Networks
IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing
Why TCP timers (still) don't work well
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
A cross-layer approach for TCP optimization over wireless and mobile networks
Computer Communications
BCR: Balanced Congestion Control after Spurious RTO
ICCSA '08 Proceeding sof the international conference on Computational Science and Its Applications, Part I
Employing cross-layer assisted TCP algorithms to improve TCP performance with vertical handoffs
International Journal of Communication Networks and Distributed Systems
On the properties of an adaptive TCP Minimum RTO
Computer Communications
The performance of multiple tcp flows with vertical handoff
Proceedings of the 7th ACM international symposium on Mobility management and wireless access
EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking
Analyzing effect of loss differentiation algorithms on improving tcp performance
ICACT'10 Proceedings of the 12th international conference on Advanced communication technology
TCP throughput improvement over vertical handover between 3G LTE and WLAN
ICHIT'11 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Convergence and hybrid information technology
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Spurious TCP retransmission timeouts (RTOs) have been reported to be a problem on network paths involving links that are prone to sudden delays due to various reasons. Especially many wireless network technologies contain such links. Spurious retransmission timeouts often cause unnecessary retransmission of several segments, which is harmful for TCP performance. Recent proposals for avoiding unnecessary retransmissions after a spurious RTO require use of TCP options which must be implemented and enabled at both ends of teh connection. We introduce a new TCP sender algorithm for recovery after a retransmission timeout and show that unnecessary retransmissions after a spurious retransmission timeout, improving the TCP performance considerably. The algorithm is friendly towards other TCP connections, because it follows the congestion control principles and injects packets to the network at same rate as a conventional TCP sender. We implemented the algorithm and compared its performance to conventional TCP and Eifel TCP when RTOs occurred either due to sudden delays or due to packet losses. The results show that our algorithm either improves performance or gives similar througput as the other TCP variants evaluated in different test cases.