BWhat changed
Nagle proposes letting acknowledgments trigger the sending of buffered TCP data instead of creating a new packet for every small application write, reducing small-packet overhead without a fixed inter-packet timer.
Scientific scope
Nagle proposes letting acknowledgments trigger the sending of buffered TCP data instead of creating a new packet for every small application write, reducing small-packet overhead without a fixed inter-packet timer. The TCP mechanism coalesces small writes while unacknowledged data remains under the stated sender policy. It trades packet overhead against latency and interacts with acknowledgement behavior; it does not universally improve every interactive or low-latency application. This is a protocol-design contribution, not a new reliable-transport proof or WRS throughput measurement.
Evidence
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Contributors
- John Nagle · SCIENCE: Original source-listed scientific author of this scoped work; byline does not determine effort fractions.
- Nagle 1984 RFC 896: Congestion control in IP/TCP internetworks
- RFC 9293(2022), Section 3.7.4 Nagle algorithm
- RFC 6633(2012): Deprecation of ICMP Source Quench messages
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