Abstract: We've known for a while that the Internet has ossified as a result of the race to optimize existing applications or enhance security. NATs, performance-enhancing-proxies,firewalls and traffic normalizers are only a few of the middleboxes that are deployed in the network and look beyond the IP header to do their job. IP itself can't be extended because "IP options are not an option". Is the same true for TCP?
Publication Year: 2011
Publication Date: 2011-11-02
Language: en
Type: article
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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