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Spurious RTOs on Regular TCP Delay spikes occur on wireless networks due to handoffs link-layer error recovery bandwidth variation Delay spike may trigger TCP retransmission timer Problems: Regular TCP sender retransmits whole window unnecessarily in slow start Network resources are wasted Dishonors packet conservation principle In many cases severe performance penalty to the TCP flow Delay spike Unnecessary retransmissions Spurious RTO |