[Bloat] sigcomm wifi

[Hal Murray]

>> Yep... I remember a neat paper from colleagues at Trento University that
>> piggybacked TCP's ACKs on link layer ACKs, thereby avoiding the collisions
>> between TCP's ACKs and other data packets - really nice. Not sure if it
>> wasn't just simulations, though.

> that's a neat hack, but I don't see it working, except when one end of the
> wireless link is also the endpoint of the TCP connection (and then only for
> acks  from that device) 

That could be generalized to piggybacking any handy small packet onto the 
link layer ACK.

Of course, then you have to send back a link layer ACK for the extra info.  
Does that converge?




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