A Web Server's View of the Transport Layer (2000)
| Venue: | ACM Computer Communication Review |
| Citations: | 106 - 9 self |
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@ARTICLE{Allman00aweb,
author = {Mark Allman},
title = {A Web Server's View of the Transport Layer},
journal = {ACM Computer Communication Review},
year = {2000},
volume = {30}
}
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Abstract
This paper presents observations of traffic to and from a particular World-Wide Web server over the course a year and a half. This paper presents a longitudinal look at various network path properties, as well as the implementation status of various protocol options and mechanisms. In particular, this paper considers how World-Wide Web clients utilize TCP connections to transfer web data; the deployment of various TCP options; the range of roundtrip times observed in the network; packet sizes used for WWW transfers; the implications of the measured advertised window sizes; and the impact of using larger initial congestion window sizes. These properties/mechanisms and their implications are explored. 1 Introduction This paper presents observations of traffic to and from a particular World-Wide Web (WWW) server over the course of 17 months. This paper has several goals. First, we attempt to evaluate the performance impact and the deployment status of several features of network stacks ...
