Fast retransmit and fast recovery schemes of transport protocols: A survey and taxonomy

Although there are two standard transport protocols, TCP and UDP, offering services in the Internet, the majority of the traffic over the Internet is TCP-based. TCP-based applications can react to packet losses; however, many performance problems have been recently observed in the Internet. To resolve these problems, several new TCP fast retransmit and fast recovery algorithms have been proposed. This article surveys state-of-the-art fast retransmit and fast recovery mechanisms of TCP to address the lost packet problem, and presents a description of some useful algorithms, design issues, advantages,

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2008
• Where: CN
• Authors: Cheng-Yuan Ho, Yaw-Chung Chen, Yi-Cheng Chan, Cheng-Yun Ho
• Keywords: CN 2008, Internet, Standard Transport Protocols, State-of-the-art Fast Retransmit