…to be very effective at reducing the number of bits sent on the upstream link [ RFC1144 ]. This relies on the observation that most TCP packet headers vary only in a few bit positions between successive packets in a flow, and that the variations can often be predicted. 5.1.1 TCP …

… and IP header compression are also frequently used with PEP implementations. [ RFC1144 ] describes a widely deployed method for compressing TCP headers. Other header compression algorithms are described in [ RFC2507 ], [ RFC2508 ] and [ RFC2509 ]. Payload compression is also des…

…CP and IP header compression are also frequently used with PEP implementations. RFC1144 ] describes a widely deployed method for compressing TCP headers. Other header compression algorithms are described in RFC2507 ], [ RFC2508 ] and [ RFC2509 ]. Payload compression is also desir…