TCP Behavior of a Busy Internet Server: Analysis and Improvements

Abstract

... a significant shift in the composition of Internet traffic. Although past work has studied the behavior of TCP dynamics in the context of bulk-transfer applications and some studies have begun to investigate the interactions of TCP and HTTP, few have used extensive real-world traffic traces to examine the problem. This interaction is interesting because of the way in which current Web browsers use TCP connections: multiple concurrent short connections from a single host. In this