Using Spurious Retransmissions to Adapt the Retransmission Timeout
draft-allman-rto-backoff-05
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| Author | Mark Allman | ||
| Last updated | 2007-07-12 | ||
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Abstract
This document describes a method for using spurious retransmission timeouts as the trigger for slightly changing the way TCP's retransmission timeout is computed in an effort to avoid subsequent unnecessary retransmissions.
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