I - State of the art

1. Specifications of a satellite link

1.1. Latency

1.2. Bandwidth

1.3. Bit error rate

2. TCP improvements over a satellite link

2.1. TCP Window Scale

2.2. TCP for transactions

2.3. Selective Acknowledgment mechanism

2.4. Quick Start

3. PEP TCP

4. PEPsal

4.1. PEPsal classification

4.2. PEPsal description

4.3. PEPsal implementation