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Measured Comparative Performance of TCP Stacks

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Passive and Active Network Measurement (PAM 2005)

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This extended abstract present findings on measured TCP performance of a range of network stacks. We have found that there are significant differences between the TCP implementations found in Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD and Windows XP.

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  1. Department of Computer Science, The University of Waikato,  

    Sam Jansen & Anthony McGregor

  2. National Laboratory for Applied Network Research (NLANR),  

    Anthony McGregor

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  1. College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology, 30332, Atlanta, Georgia

    Constantinos Dovrolis

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Jansen, S., McGregor, A. (2005). Measured Comparative Performance of TCP Stacks. In: Dovrolis, C. (eds) Passive and Active Network Measurement. PAM 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3431. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-31966-5_27

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