Optimised receiver-initiated sending rate increment
AssigneeMatsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
InventorsFernando Berzosa, Rolf Hakenberg, Thomas Klinner, Carsten Burmeister
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Abstract
A method of incrementing a receiver-initiated sending rate of data packets transmitted from a sender over a network receiver using Transport Control Protocol (TCP) comprising the step of sending an acknowledgement for received data packets from the receiver to the sender, wherein said acknowledgement contains an advertised window indicating the allowed sending bit rate and the step of increasing the advertised window by a maximum of one segment size per acknowledgement.
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A method of incrementing a receiver-initiated sending rate of data packets transmitted from a sender over a network to a receiver using a Transport Control Protocol (TCP) comprising the steps of:
- sending an acknowledgement for received data packets from the receiver to the sender, said acknowledgement containing an advertised window indicating the allowed sending bit rate, and
- increasing the advertised window by a maximum of one segment size per acknowledgement.
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