Predicting short-transfer latency from TCP arcana: a trace-based validation
Martin F. Arlitt, Balachander Krishnamurthy, Jeffrey C. Mogul · 2005
In some contexts it may be useful to predict the latency for short TCP transfers. For example, a Web server could automatically tailor its content depending on the network path to each client, or an "opportunistic networking" application could improve its scheduling of data transfers.