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Re:Lessons Learned: TCP slow start doesn’t have to be so slow by patkennard on Friday September 11, 2015 @03:05PM (#10205578)
Google must be working on something to fix slow start already, if not then I'm sure Hooli XYZ has something in the works!
Re:Lessons Learned: TCP slow start doesn’t have to be so slow by chetanahuja on Friday September 11, 2015 @03:19PM (#10205648)
Well there's QUIC. But it seems like it's focused on replacing HTTP/SPDY/HTTP2 and not really interested in doing mobile specific optimizations. The OP blogpost is describing a technique involving taking account of specific properties of mobile networks to tune slow start for each individual connection.