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TCP is the ubiquitous transport protocol in the Internet. However, in a wireless ad-hoc environment where links are unreliable, TCP causes a number of performance issues. The key reason behind this is that TCP considers all packet losses to be due to congestion and reduces its send rate, which is not necessarily appropriate in a lossy ad-hoc environment. In prior work, we have designed Loss Tolerant...