Packet spreading techniques to avoid bursty traffic in long RTT TCP connections [satellite link applications]

In all the TCP protocol variants, included the TCP Hybla proposal recently presented by the authors, the segment transmission rate is given by the ratio between the congestion window (cwnd) and the round trip time (RTT). As a result, to provide a high throughput to long RTT connections (e.g. satellite), it is necessary to make use of large cwnds, which, on the other hand, may increase the transmission burstiness, with consequent possible huge...