TCP with Advanced Window Scaling Option

摘要

With the expanding amount of data transferred over transmission links it is necessary to improve the links and appropriate network devices to match the traffic requests. In general, the most common way of increasing network throughput and performance is the replacement of the network devices and links. This way is reliable but usually expensive. Different way of improving network performance is the change of network protocols and appropriate protocol stacks. This paper introduces an effective way of increasing network performance with some improvements in the most common transport protocol TCP. The improvement, called advanced window scaling option, enables a controlled usage of window scaling extension introduced in RFC1323. It means that this extension is used only under particular circumstances-when it is effective and necessary. In general, this improvement will reduce the end node's processing delay.