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<title abbrev='Increasing TCP&apos;s Initial Window'>Increasing TCP&apos;s Initial Window</title>
<author initials='M.' surname='Allman' fullname='Mark Allman'>
<organization>NASA Lewis Research Center/Sterling Software</organization>
<address>
<postal>
<street>21000 Brookpark Road</street>
<street>MS 54-2</street>
<region>OH</region>
<code>44135</code>
<country>USA</country></postal>
<email>mallman@lerc.nasa.gov</email>
<uri>http://gigahertz.lerc.nasa.gov/~mallman/</uri></address></author>
<author initials='S.' surname='Floyd' fullname='Sally Floyd'>
<organization>Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory</organization>
<address>
<postal>
<street>One Cyclotron Road</street>
<city>Berkeley</city>
<region>CA</region>
<code>94720</code>
<country>USA</country></postal>
<email>floyd@ee.lbl.gov</email></address></author>
<author initials='C.' surname='Partridge' fullname='Craig Partridge'>
<organization>BBN Technologies</organization>
<address>
<postal>
<street>10 Moulton Street</street>
<city>Cambridge</city>
<region>MA</region>
<code>02138</code>
<country>USA</country></postal>
<email>craig@bbn.com</email></address></author>
<date month='September' year='1998' />
<area>Transport</area>
<keyword>transmission control protocol</keyword>
<keyword>TCP</keyword>
<abstract>
<t>
   This document specifies an increase in the permitted initial window
   for TCP from one segment to roughly 4K bytes.  This document
   discusses the advantages and disadvantages of such a change,
   outlining experimental results that indicate the costs and benefits
   of such a change to TCP.
</t></abstract></front>

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