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what is the diffrence between TCP TAHOE and TCP RENO

TCP Tahoe and Reno are two forms of handling TCP congestion controls specifically when it comes to receiving 3 duplicate acks. Tahoe: handles 3 duplicate acks similar (exactly?) to receiving a timeout. It first performs a fast retransmit. Then, it halves the ssthresh value to original congestion window size, and sets the new window size … Read more

TCP congestion control version: HTCP module vs highspeed module in linux kernel

Doesn’t HTCP stands for highspeed TCP? No. It stands for TCP for high-speed and long-distance networks and is described in this document from the Hamilton Institute. HighSpeed TCP is published in RFC 3649. So what is the differences between “HTCP” and “highspeed” module here? The common point first, is that they want to turn high bandwidth long distance networks more efficient. The main difference, … Read more