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An argument for increasing TCP's initial congestion window (2024)

jeclark.net published 2024-09-026 min read

Introduction Google has a long history of performing networking research, making changes, and pushing those changes to the entire internet. In 2011, they published one of my favorite papers, which described their decision to increase the TCP initial congestion window from 1 to 10 on their entire infrastructure. This…
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