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The impact of packet reordering on the performance of TCP flavours is presented in this paper by analyzing four TCP flavours that are TCP-Reno, TCP-Newreo, TCP-SACK, and TCP-Linux. Thus, to do so an experiment is conducted based on simulation environment using Network simulator NS-2 version 2.33. The simulation results show that sending rate is decreased as a result of packet reordering phenomena; however, TCP-Linux performs better than other TCP flavours when there is more than one flow due to the large initial value of TCP-Linux slow-start threshold (ssthresh). These results demonstrate that packet reordering negatively affect the performance of TCP flavours. The finding of this paper can be summarized in that packet reordering may have a catastrophic effect on the performance of the TCP flavours, and the expected throughput from using these TCP flavours might not be achieved.
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Yasin, W., Ibrahim, H., Abdul Hamid, N.A.W., Udzir, N.I. (2011). Performance Analysis of Transport Control Protocol Flavours in the Existence of Packet Reordering Phenomena. In: Ariwa, E., El-Qawasmeh, E. (eds) Digital Enterprise and Information Systems. DEIS 2011. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 194. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-22603-8_50
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