“T/TCP is an experimental extension for the TCP protocol. It was
designed to address the need for a transaction-based transport
protocol in the TCP/IP stack.”
“TCP and UDP are the current choices available for
transaction-based applications. TCP is reliable but inefficient for
transactions, whereas UDP is unreliable but highly efficient. T/TCP
sits between these two protocols, making it an alternative for
certain applications.”
“Currently, several flavours of UNIX support T/TCP. SunOS 4.1.3
(a Berkeley-derived kernel) was the very first implementation of
T/TCP, and made available in September 1994. The next
implementation was for FreeBSD 2.0, released in March 1995. For
my final-year project, I implemented T/TCP for Linux at the
University of Limerick in April 1998….“
“In this article, I discuss the operation, advantages and flaws
of T/TCP. This will allow application developers to decide when
T/TCP is appropriate for networking applications. I present my
results from a comparative analysis between T/TCP and TCP, based on
the number of packets per session for each transaction. I also give
my conclusions from a case study I conducted into the possible
impact of T/TCP on the World Wide Web.”
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