A measurement study of PMTUs using RIPE Atlas to characterize their behavior in general, across protocol layers (IPv4/IPv6 and network locations thus covering 76,700 paths across access networks, the Internet core, and web-serving infrastructure, and shows that sub-1500 B PMTUs are primarily located near network edges,...
Jonathan Binkle, Vaishnavi Raghavajosyula, Tiago Heinrich et al.· Proceedings of the 2026 ACM...· 0 citations
The current design derives the segment size from both the pacing rate and RTT, making it sensitive to noisy RTT conditions and potentially degrading performance, so segment sizing is redesigned to depend solely on the pacing_rate using three schemes—linear, exponential, and logarithmic.