Stuart Cheshire

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I worked at Stanford with David Cheriton's Distributed Systems Group and then with Mary Baker's Mosquitonet research group on wireless networking and mobile computing, using Metricom spread-spectrum packet radios and Linux .

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TCP Performance problems related to Nagle’s Algorithm and Delayed ACK (2005)

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This page describes a TCP performance problem resulting from a little-known interaction between Nagle’s Algorithm and Delayed ACK. At least, I believe it’s not well known: I haven’t seen it documented elsewhere, yet in the course of my career at Apple I have run into the performance problem it causes over and over…