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... of valid orderings can be calculated easily, for others this
calculation is intractable. An in-depth discussion on calculating
and comparing the number of orderings for a given partial order can
be found in [ACCD93a ...
... Figure 3: Object ordering in multimedia application
Of particular interest to our discussion of partial ordering is the
fact that, while objects of a given media type generally must be
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... reliability.
Throughout the discussion of these issues, the authors use the
generic notion of "objects" in describing the service details. Thus,
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... represents a potential fundamental change to the TCP protocol, some
discussion is in order.
At one extreme, it is possible to consider octets as objects and
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... both the sending-side and the receiving-side are operating in a
normal, ordered-reliable mode. For the subsequent discussion, an
important distinction is made in the terms sending-side and
receiving ...
... network
interface.
For the remaining discussions, we will assume that a partial order
profile has been successfully negotiated for a single direction of
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... acknowledgment policy. The authors are investigating several of
these strategies through a simulation model and have included a brief
discussion of these issues in Section 6.
The retransmit function of the TCP ...