>> Yep... I remember a neat paper from colleagues at Trento University that >> piggybacked TCP's ACKs on link layer ACKs, thereby avoiding the collisions >> between TCP's ACKs and other data packets - really nice. Not sure if it >> wasn't just simulations, though.
> that's a neat hack, but I don't see it working, except when one end of the > wireless link is also the endpoint of the TCP connection (and then only for > acks from that device) That could be generalized to piggybacking any handy small packet onto the link layer ACK. Of course, then you have to send back a link layer ACK for the extra info. Does that converge? -- These are my opinions. I hate spam. _______________________________________________ Bloat mailing list [email protected] https://lists.bufferbloat.net/listinfo/bloat
