[e2e] TCP Timeouts and TripleDupACK

[Lachlan Andrew]

Greetings Detlef,

I don't have any figures, but I don't think we can ever do away with timeouts.

There is always a chance that all ACKs get lost, and so if we want to
have reliability without the possibility of a deadlock, we need a
timeout to break out of waiting state.

Cheers,
Lachlan

On 22 July 2011 21:33, Detlef Bosau <detlef.bosau at web.de> wrote:
> Hi.
>
> Are there some papers out there comparing how often TCP congestion is
> detected by timeout and how often it is detected by triple duplicate ack?
>
> I'm basically interested, whether timeouts could be overcome completely or
> whether there will be a permanent need for a working timeout scheme in TCP.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Detlef
>
> --
> ------------------------------------------------------------------
> Detlef Bosau
> Galileistraße 30
> 70565 Stuttgart                            Tel.:   +49 711 5208031
>                                           mobile: +49 172 6819937
>                                           skype:     detlef.bosau
>                                           ICQ:          566129673
> detlef.bosau at web.de                     http://www.detlef-bosau.de
> ------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>
>



-- 
Lachlan Andrew  Centre for Advanced Internet Architectures (CAIA)
Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia
<http://caia.swin.edu.au/cv/landrew>
Ph +61 3 9214 4837