Everything about Transmission Control Protocol

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: Transmission Control ProtocolA 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: α-TCP-based calcium phosphate cements: A critical reviewInfluential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: Internetworking with TCP/IPThe most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: TCP Vegas: end to end congestion avoidance on a global InternetCited 1,179 times
5. Go sideways: Transport layerA closely related topic
6. Go sideways: User Datagram ProtocolA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• TCP Vegas: end to end congestion avoidance on a global Internet

  L.S. Brakmo, L.L. Peterson · 1995 · IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications · 1,179 citations

• The macroscopic behavior of the TCP congestion avoidance algorithm

  Matthew Mathis, Jeffrey Semke, Jamshid Mahdavi · 1997 · ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review · 1,049 citations

• Modeling TCP Reno performance: a simple model and its empirical validation

  J. Padhye, V. Firoiu, D.F. Towsley · 2000 · IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking · 913 citations

• A comparison of mechanisms for improving TCP performance over wireless links

  H. Balakrishnan, V.N. Padmanabhan, S. Seshan · 1997 · IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking · 844 citations

• Simulation-based comparisons of Tahoe, Reno and SACK TCP

  Kevin Fall, Sally Floyd · 1996 · ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review · 734 citations

• TCP genes: a family snapshot ten years later

  Mar Martín-Trillo, Pilar Cubas · 2010 · Trends in Plant Science · 728 citations

• TCP and explicit congestion notification

  Sally Floyd · 1994 · ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review · 723 citations

• The TCP domain: a motif found in proteins regulating plant growth and development

  Pilar Cubas, Nick Lauter, John Doebley · 1999 · The Plant Journal · 715 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• α-TCP-based calcium phosphate cements: A critical review

  Matheus C. Tronco, Júlia B. Cassel, Luís A. dos Santos · 2022 · Acta Biomaterialia · 101 citations

• Spatial control of potato tuberization by the TCP transcription factor BRANCHED1b

  Michael Nicolas, Rafael Torres-Pérez, Vanessa Wahl · 2022 · Nature Plants · 101 citations

• Influence of Fused Deposition Modelling Nozzle Temperature on the Rheology and Mechanical Properties of 3D Printed β-Tricalcium Phosphate (TCP)/Polylactic Acid (PLA) Composite

  Karim Elhattab, Sarit B. Bhaduri, Prabaha Sikder · 2022 · Polymers · 92 citations

• Nanoscale β-TCP-Laden GelMA/PCL Composite Membrane for Guided Bone Regeneration

  Abdel H. Mahmoud, Yuanyuan Han, Renan Dal-Fabbro · 2023 · ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces · 91 citations

• Performance and Features: Mitigating the Low-Rate TCP-Targeted DoS Attack via SDN

  Dan Tang, Yudong Yan, Siqi Zhang · 2022 · IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications · 90 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• Internetworking with TCP/IPDouglas E. Comer, David L. Stevens · 1988
• IP Routing ProtocolsJames Aweya · 2021
• TCP/IPCraig Hunt · 1992
• Networking EssentialsJeffrey S. Beasley, Piyasat Nilkaew · 2012
• TCP/IPSidnie Feit · 1993
• TCP/IP AddressingBuck Graham · 1996
• IP Over WDMKevin H. Liu · 2002
• Sams teach yourself TCP/IP in 24 hoursJoe Casad · 1998

Ranked by number of editions on Open Library, a rough measure of how lasting a book is.

🔗 Related topics

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