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Unveiling the transport

Authors:

Lawrence Brakmo,

David E. Lowell,

Dinesh Subhraveti,

Justin MooreAuthors Info & Claims

ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review, Volume 34, Issue 1

Pages 99 - 106

https://doi.org/10.1145/972374.972392

Published: 01 January 2004 Publication History

Abstract

Traditional application programming interfaces for transport protocols make a virtue of hiding most internal per-connection state. We argue that this information-hiding precludes many potentially useful application features and performance optimizations. We advocate a disciplined, portable, and secure interface that gives applications both "get" and "set" access to transport connection state.

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ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review Volume 34, Issue 1

January 2004

140 pages

ISSN:0146-4833

DOI:10.1145/972374

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