Rethinking ACKs at the Transport Layer

Ana Custura; Tom Jones; Gorry Fairhurst

Rethinking ACKs at the Transport Layer

Ana Custura, Tom Jones, Gorry Fairhurst

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Abstract

Acknowledgements are a core component of trans- port protocols. They can send control information and be used to receive feedback about transmission progress, to measure responsiveness and capacity of the network path, and numerous other purposes. This paper takes a long look at the way acknowledgements are used across different transports and what ACK information is actually needed in new protocol designs. TCP’s use of ACKs has inspired the design of other Internet transports and was used as a model for QUIC.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	2020 IFIP Networking Conference (Networking)
Publisher	IEEE Explore
Pages	731-736
Number of pages	6
ISBN (Electronic)	9783903176287
ISBN (Print)	9781728167107
Publication status	Published - 17 Jul 2020

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Name	IFIP Networking 2020 Conference and Workshops, Networking 2020

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Transport
QUIC
transport protocols
ACK

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