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[tcpm] Aid passive estimate of tcp performance

Ángel Bartomeu Bonillo <abartomeu@swissms.ch> Wed, 08 February 2012 12:15 UTC

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Hello,

I recently faced the problem of passively estimating the packet loss of TCP connection. After a bit of investigating the literature I found that there are tens of papers addressing this issue but I couldn't find any perfect solution. 
Since this is an important issue for network operators I have been thinking that there would be a very easy solution by just making the two TCP connection end points to account for its sent segments and report it to the other end point in the FIN segment.
This approach could be used as well for other measurable parameters along the TCP session without the need for any other offline method and It would be very helpful for detecting failures along networks. 

Any comments?

Thanks for your time.

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