Split TCP: Put a proxy in between the client and the server so that the client’s request is handled by the proxy and the proxy is holding persistent connections to the server. In this case, 3-way handshake only happen between client and the proxy and the proxy can enjoy an...
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Nechaev et al (2009) On Calibrating Enterprise Switch Measurements (IMC)
A paper I skimmed.
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Sarolahti and Kuznetsov (2002) Congestion Control in TCP (Usenix)
A survey paper on how Linux implements the congestion control in TCP.
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Al-Qudah et al (2010) Web Timeouts and Their Implications (PAM)
Take a number of public web servers as subject, evaluates how they handles timeout events.
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Garcia-Lunes-Aceves (1993) Loop-Free Routing Using Diffusing Computations (TON)
This paper describes the DUAL (diffusion update algorithm), which is used in Cisco’s EIGRP. The algorithm guarantees loop-free routing at any time by imposing a constraint (feasibility condition) on route update. The feasibility condition is a conservative condition in the sense that it rejects some legitimate route update so that...
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