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<title abbrev='Enhancing TCP Over Satellite Channels'>Enhancing TCP Over Satellite Channels using Standard Mechanisms</title>
<author initials='M.' surname='Allman' fullname='Mark Allman'>
<organization>NASA Lewis Research Center/Sterling Software</organization>
<address>
<postal>
<street>21000 Brookpark Rd., MS 54-2</street>
<city>Cleveland</city>
<region>OH</region>
<code>44135</code>
<country>USA</country></postal>
<phone>+1 216 433 6586</phone>
<email>mallman@lerc.nasa.gov</email>
<uri>http://roland.lerc.nasa.gov/~mallman</uri></address></author>
<author initials='D.R.' surname='Glover' fullname='Daniel R. Glover'>
<organization>NASA Lewis Research Center</organization>
<address>
<postal>
<street />
<city>Cleveland</city>
<region>OH</region>
<code>44135</code>
<country>USA</country></postal>
<phone>+1 216 433 2847</phone>
<email>Daniel.R.Glover@lerc.nasa.gov</email></address></author>
<author initials='L.A.' surname='Sanchez' fullname='Luis A. Sanchez'>
<organization>BBN Technologies, GTE Internetworking</organization>
<address>
<postal>
<street>10 Moulton Street</street>
<city>Cambridge</city>
<region>MA</region>
<code>02140</code>
<country>USA</country></postal>
<phone>+1 617 873 3351</phone>
<email>lsanchez@ir.bbn.com</email></address></author>
<date month='January' year='1999' />
<area>Transport</area>
<keyword>transmission control protocol</keyword>
<keyword>satellite</keyword>
<keyword>TCP</keyword>
<abstract>
<t>
   The Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) provides reliable delivery of
   data across any network path, including network paths containing
   satellite channels.  While TCP works over satellite channels there
   are several IETF standardized mechanisms that enable TCP to more
   effectively utilize the available capacity of the network path.  This
   document outlines some of these TCP mitigations.  At this time, all
   mitigations discussed in this document are IETF standards track
   mechanisms (or are compliant with IETF standards).
</t></abstract></front>

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