Abstract
This letter presents a new retransmission timeout (RTO) algorithm based on recursive weighted median (RWM) filters for the transmission control protocol (TCP). The RTO algorithm utilized in current TCP implementations is Jacobson's algorithm, which is based on recursive linear filtering. While linear filters are adequate for estimation in Gaussian signal environments, the round trip time (RTT) signals filtered to determine the RTOs are often impulsive. Thus, Jacobson's algorithm is not effective in many cases. The proposed algorithm employs RWM filters that yield improved performance when operating on RTT signals with heavy tailed statistics. Simulation results show that the proposed method yields significantly tighter RTT bounds than Jacobson's method over Internet traffic with heavy tailed statistics.
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