Notes on burst mitigation for transport protocols
Mark C. Allman, Ethan Blanton · ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review · 2005
In this note we explore the various causes of micro-bursting in TCP connections and also the behavior of several mitigations that have been suggested in the literature along with extensions we develop herein. This note methodically sketches the behavior of the mitigations and presents the tradeoffs of various schemes as a data point in the ongoing discussion about preventing bursting in transport protocols.