Université Catholique de Louvain: Olivier Bonaventure's "Computer Networking: Principles, Protocols, and Practice"

Read section 4.3.3, "TCP's Retransmission Timeout," on pages 100-102. Stop at "Advanced Retransmission Strategies."

Follow the path in this section of your textbook to see how the TCP retransmission timeout improves transport performance.