Preventing TCP from becoming too conservative too quickly

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 10700977
APP PUB NO 20170346738A1
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15675816

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A technique that addresses the problem of a TCP connection's throughput being very vulnerable to early losses implements a pair of controls around ssthresh. A first control is a loss forgiveness mechanism that applies to the first n-loss events by the TCP connection. Generally, this mechanism prevents new TCP connections from ending slow-start and becoming conservative on window growth too early (which would otherwise occur due to the early losses). The second control is a self-decay mechanism that is applied beyond the first n-losses that are handled by the first control. This mechanism decouples of ssthresh drop from cwnd and is thus useful in arresting otherwise steep ssthresh drops. The self-decay mechanism also enables TCP to enter/continue to be slow-start even after fast-recovery from a loss event.

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AKAMAI TECHNOLOGIES INC150 BROADWAY CAMBRIDGE MA 02142

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Jain, Manish Cambridge, US 80 1075
Kasbekar, Mangesh M New York, US 2 3

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