RFC2414: Increasing TCP's Initial Window1998 RFC
- Authors:
- M. Allman,
- S. Floyd,
- C. Partridge
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Abstract
This document specifies an increase in the permitted initial window for TCP from one segment to roughly 4K bytes. This document discusses the advantages and disadvantages of such a change, outlining experimental results that indicate the costs and benefits of such a change to TCP.
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