Developers introduced the TCP-accelerator Skyline Speeder

A team of researchers has released Skyline Speeder — a tool for accelerating data transfer on the sender side. The project is written in Rust and uses eBPF technology to optimize the network stack under high latency and packet loss conditions.

The main principle of Skyline Speeder is to ignore standard packet loss signals. Instead, the algorithm focuses on analyzing queue delays and using ECN (Explicit Congestion Notification) signals. This approach allows maintaining high throughput even with unstable connections with high RTT (Round Trip Time) values.

For the tool to work correctly, a Linux kernel version 6.10 or higher is required. The eBPF implementation provides low overhead when processing traffic, allowing congestion control logic to be implemented directly at the kernel level. The project's source code is available in an open repository under a free license.

The tool is oriented towards high-load systems, where standard TCP congestion control algorithms often reduce transfer speed due to false triggering on random packet losses. Using Skyline Speeder allows minimizing the impact of network anomalies on the overall performance of data transfer in distributed infrastructures.