Study And Simulation Of Enhancements For Tcp Performance Over Noisy High Latency Links

The goal of this study is to better understand how TCP behaves over noisy, high-latency links such as satellite links and propose improvements to TCP implementations such that TCP might better handle such links. This report is comprised of a series of smaller reports, presentations and recommendations. Included in these documents are a summary of the TCP enhancement techniques for large windows, protect against wrap around (PAWS), use of selective acknowledgements (SACK), increasing TCP's initial window and recommendations to implement TCP pacing.Partridge, CraigGlenn Research CenterRESEARCH; COMPUTERIZED SIMULATION; AUGMENTATION; DATA LINKS; SATELLITE NETWORKS; COMMUNICATION SATELLITES; NOISE THRESHOLD