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4. TCP Switching
Subsections
4.1 Introduction
4.1.1 Organization of the chapter
4.2 Advantages and pitfalls of circuit switching
4.2.1 Pitfalls of circuit switching
4.2.2 State maintenance
4.2.3 Signaling overhead and latency
4.2.4 Wasted capacity
4.2.5 Blocking under congestion
4.3 TCP Switching
4.3.1 Typical Internet flows
4.3.2 Design options
4.3.2.1 Circuit establishment
4.3.2.2 Circuit release
4.3.2.3 Handling of non-TCP flows
4.3.2.4 Signaling
4.3.2.5 Circuit routing
4.3.2.6 Circuit granularities
4.3.3 Design choices
4.3.3.1 Circuit signaling
4.3.3.2 Bandwidth assignment
4.3.3.3 Flow detection
4.3.3.4 Inactivity timeouts
4.3.3.5 Circuit replacement policies
4.3.3.6 Switching unit
4.3.4 Experimentation with TCP-Switching networks and nodes
4.4 Discussion
4.4.1 Single-packet flows
4.4.2 Bandwidth inefficiencies
4.4.3 Denial of service
4.5 Conclusions and summary of contributions
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