[HN Gopher] KCP: A Fast and Reliable ARQ Protocol
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       KCP: A Fast and Reliable ARQ Protocol
        
       Author : mpsq
       Score  : 28 points
       Date   : 2021-04-12 09:55 UTC (13 hours ago)
        
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 (TXT) w3m dump (github.com)
        
       | rektide wrote:
       | ARQ: Automatic Repeat Request[1]. This is an article about a TCP
       | competitor boasting lower latency.
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       | [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.
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       | 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.
        
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