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Excessive retransmissions after client disappears

Excessive retransmissions after client disappears: a task in LegoFlow-SWE (Harbor dataset). When a QUIC client stops responding (disappears), the server continues to retransmit packets far longer than reasonable. In a reported case the client last sent a PING at T=12.8 s, yet the server kept…

The task

When a QUIC client stops responding (disappears), the server continues to retransmit packets far longer than reasonable. In a reported case the client last sent a PING at T=12.8 s, yet the server kept repeating packets – 143 of them – until T=84.4 s, i.e. over 70 seconds of unnecessary retransmissions to a dead peer.

Part of Lego-X/LegoFlow-SWE.