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From: J.Crowcroft@CS.UCL.AC.UK (Jon Crowcroft)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: Use of TCP/IP with satellite delays
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Date: 12 Oct 90 09:09:26 GMT
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 >>Someone recently asked a question about use of TCP/IP over a satellite
 >>link, and since I've never worked in that realm, the ground got mushy
 >>under my feet.  I'd like a reality check.
 

You should see paper by Seo et al in sigcomm 88 for measurement of TCP
& IP over SATNET - the relevant bits include:

slow start and mean+variance RTT estimator TCP over the atalantic 
packet satellite
network - 

even a mere RSRE algoritm RTT TCP ran in service over SATNET for a decade
...it just isnt a problem any more :-)

jon