All-Weather Transport Essentials
Christof Leng, Wesley W. Terpstra, Max Lehn, Robert Rehner, Alejandro Buchmann · IEEE Internet Computing · 2012
Since the original design of TCP and UDP, the world has changed, and with it, the Internet. Here, the authors argue that transport protocol architectures, most notably TCP's, must be updated to meet the needs of today's Internet. Their optimistic approach favors normal operation at the expense of overhead when dealing with corner cases and advocates leaving certain policies to the application instead of the transport protocol.