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Performance problems in BSD4. 4TCP

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Lawrence S. Brakmo,

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ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review, Volume 25, Issue 5

Pages 69 - 86

https://doi.org/10.1145/216701.216706

Published: 01 October 1995 Publication History

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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.

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ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review Volume 25, Issue 5

Oct. 1995

101 pages

ISSN:0146-4833

DOI:10.1145/216701

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Martha Streenstrup
Bolt Beranek& Newman, Inc., Cambridge, MA

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