Scalable TCP

One of the advantages of Scalable TCP is that its recovery time (after loss) is only proportional to the RTT, and not also proportional to the sending rate as in "classical" TCP congestion control.

References

• http://www.deneholme.net/tom/scalable/
• Scalable TCP: Improving Performance in Highspeed Wide Area Networks, T. Kelly, Computer Communication Review 32(2), April 2003 - PS, PDF

-- SimonLeinen - 27 Oct 2006