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The estimation of Retransmission Timeout (RTO) in Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) affects the throughput of the transmission link. If the RTO is just a little larger than the Round Trip Time (RTT), retransmissions will occur too often, and this increases congestion in the transmission link. If the RTO is much larger than the RTT, the response to retransmit when a packet is lost will be too slow,...