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 resol...

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Published in:Computer networks (Amsterdam, Netherlands : 1999) Netherlands : 1999), 2008-04, Vol.52 (6), p.1308-1327
Main Authors: Ho, Cheng-Yuan, Chen, Yaw-Chung, Chan, Yi-Cheng, Ho, Cheng-Yun
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Access methods and protocols, osi model
Algorithms
Applied sciences
Exact sciences and technology
Fast recovery
Fast retransmit
Interconnected networks
Internet
Miscellaneous
Networks and services in france and abroad
Studies
Survey
Systems, networks and services of telecommunications
Taxonomy
TCP
TCP-IP
Telecommunications
Telecommunications and information theory
Teleprocessing networks. Isdn
Teletraffic
Traffic flow
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Summary: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, and disadvantages. The objective of this article is fourfold: to provide an introduction to TCP protocol; to discuss problems degrading TCP retransmission performance in the present-day Internet; to describe some proposed transport protocols that solve a number of throughput issues; and finally, to gain new insight into these protocols and thereby suggest avenues for future research. Based on our taxonomy, existing fast retransmit and fast recovery schemes of transport protocols are described in this survey.
ISSN:1389-1286
1872-7069
DOI:10.1016/j.comnet.2007.12.012