[e2e] Routers accessing TCP header

[Arjuna Sathiaseelan]

Dear Craig,
  Thanks for your reply. 

> While the mechanism is slightly different, this sounds like Explicit
> Transport Error Notification (ETEN) done again.  See:
>
>     Rajesh Krishnan, James P.G. Sterbenz, Wesley M. Eddy, Craig Partridge
>     and Mark Allman, "Explicit transport error notification (ETEN) for
>     error-prone wireless and satellite networks," Computer Networks,
>     46(3), October 2004, pp. 343-362.
>

Incase you assume that EPDN was inspired from ETEN :),

This mechanism is a part of my four year PhD Thesis and has evolved
through these publications :

1) Robust TCP (TCP-R) with Explicit Packet Drop Notification (EPDN)
for Satellite Networks.
To appear in the proceedings of the 4th International Conference on
Networking (ICN '05), Reunion Island. Arjuna Sathiaseelan, Tomasz
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                        2) Improving the Performance of TCP in the
Case of Packet Reordering,  7th IEEE International Conference on High
Speed Networks and Multimedia Communications HSNMC'04,Toulouse, France
July 2004 (LNCS 3079, pp. 63-75).

3)  RD-TCP: Reorder Detecting TCP. In proceedings of the 6th IEEE
International Conference on High Speed Networks and Multimedia
Communications HSNMC'03, Estoril, Portugal, July 2003 (LNCS 2720,
pp.471-480).

I use the EPDN mechanisms for detecting packet losses and thus
distinguish a packet reorder event from a packet drop event for all
these 3 papers. All these papers were products of a NOVICE
UNSUPERVISED PhD work and I am in the process of improving things.  I
would also like to tell you frankly that EPDN is just an amateur while
compared to your ETEN and no where near yours :).. I will be putting
my papers on the web as soon as I get them done properly. At present
they look quite amusing to me :)..

Pl do not mistake this email. Its just for your information. Thanks
for your reply once again.


Regards,
Arjuna