[HN Gopher] KCP: A Fast and Reliable ARQ Protocol ___________________________________________________________________ KCP: A Fast and Reliable ARQ Protocol Author : mpsq Score : 28 points Date : 2021-04-12 09:55 UTC (13 hours ago) (HTM) web link (github.com) (TXT) w3m dump (github.com) | rektide wrote: | ARQ: Automatic Repeat Request[1]. This is an article about a TCP | competitor boasting lower latency. | | [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_repeat_request | kenniskrag wrote: | and this an implementation: https://github.com/nicosta1132/atp- | go | eps wrote: | Beating TCP is not hard. But doing it without starving TCP | sessions to death is. | | The only way to co-exist gracefully with TCP is to use a | compatible backoff mechanism. Anything more aggressive will | basically steal all of the bandwidth from TCP and that's it. | miohtama wrote: | Is the competition on your local boxes (computer, router) or in | the network backbone and middleware boxes? Seems like KCP is | aimed for real-time gaming and this case it does not matter if | your own other connections (browser, autoupdater) suffer at the | same time. ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2021-04-12 23:01 UTC)