Re: my broken TCP is faster on broken networks

Olaf Titz (olaf@bigred.inka.de)
Sat, 12 Sep 1998 11:43:15 +0200


> Congestion control can also persist across connections, web servers could
> have congestion 'buckets' that track the amount of congestion to various
> subnets (as calculated from RTTs and dropped packets). Web requests could

This could be done with TCP, if the TCP stack keeps RTT and congestion
stats per host instead of per connection. (I have heard of that idea
already, is it viable?)

> Images could be sent in a dynamicly lossy format: If encoded with a

Great idea, but research into compression methods often ends at the
patent office :-/

olaf

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