Performance problems in BSD4.4 TCP

Lawrence S. Brakmo; Larry L. Peterson

doi:10.1145/216701.216706

Performance problems in BSD4.4 TCP

Lawrence S. Brakmo, Larry L. Peterson

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The code improvements made on the BSD 4.4-Lite version of the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP), which resulted in a 21% throughput increase under the simulation scenarios, are described. One of the major lessons learned from this exercise is that TCP's robustness - its ability to complete data transfers under the worst conditions - makes coding errors that much harder to find. It would be much easier to find these problems if they resulted in breaking TCP, but breaking TCP is hard. Instead, sophisticated analysis tools are required to find performance-related bugs in TCP.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	69-86
Number of pages	18
Journal	Computer Communication Review
Volume	25
Issue number	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/216701.216706
State	Published - Oct 1995

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