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Impact of Acks: Mitigation [Balakrishnan97]
Piggybacking link layer acks with data
Sending fewer TCP acks - ack every d-th packet (d
may be chosen dynamically)
• but need to use rate control at sender to reduce
burstiness (for large d)
Ack filtering - Gateway may drop an older ack in the
queue, if a new ack arrives
reduces number of acks that need to be delivered to the
sender
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