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Title : Lightweight Mobility Detection and Response (LMDR)
Algorithm for TCP
Author(s) : Y. Swami, K. Le
Filename : draft-swami-tcp-lmdr-01.txt
Pages : 12
Date : 2003-9-29
TCP congestion control is based on the assumption that end-to-end
path of a connection doesn't change--or at best changes
infrequently--once the connection is established. However, when a
user moves from one subnet to another, this assumption breaks down.
After a subnet change, A TCP sender that relies only on the rate of
the arrival of ACKs for congestion control may inadvertently add to
unnecessary network congestion (or reduced throughput). What's
worse is that a TCP sender may be totally unaware of such user
mobility and may not be able to take any remedial action to prevent
packet loss. In this document we describe a network layer
independent mechanism by which a TCP receiver can propagate its
subnet change information to its peer, and based on that the sender
can take appropriate action.
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