Because of the critical importance of TCP to the operation of the Internet, it has received much attention in the research community over the years. As a result, numerous improvements to implementations of TCP have been developed and deployed. In this issue, Geoff Huston takes a detailed look at TCP from a performance perspective and describes several enhancements to the original protocol.
Electronic mail is by far the most used of all Internet applications.
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