Packet loss refers to the situation where data packets are discarded during the transmission process due to various reasons before they reach the application program. The number of discarded packets divided by the total number of transmitted packets is what we commonly refer to as the packet loss rate. The packet loss rate is one … Read more
Understanding Packet Loss Packet loss, as the name suggests, refers to data packets that are “lost” during network transmission and fail to reach their destination. The HTTP protocol runs on the TCP/IP protocol stack, and packet loss can occur at the network layer, such as when a router is overwhelmed and drops packets, or at … Read more
TCP is designed for single connections, where the requesting end places the data to be transmitted in order into a pipeline, and the final data appears at the other end of the pipeline in the same order. unsetunsetTCPunsetunset HTTP/1.1 TCP Data Transmission Process Diagram The sent data is split into packets, which are transmitted over … Read more
Recently, there was a project where the client’s network environment was unstable, occasionally resulting in packet loss and network jitter, causing our software client to intermittently disconnect from the server, which disrupted ongoing video conferences. This article takes this opportunity to explain in detail the heartbeat mechanism, packet loss retransmission mechanism, and other related content … Read more