[e2e] Simple Question on TCP Window Size

[Jeong-woo Cho]

 Hi, everyone.

 TCP reduces its window size (cwnd) to half of current cwnd when it detects loss via triple duplicate acknowlegements. So, I define the reduction ratio of current TCP as 1/2. I can guess that if reduction ration is smaller, network would be more stable. But, I think that if we set reduction ratio a little higher than current value 1/2, unfairness between UDP and TCP would decrease.

 Why don't we set the reduction ratio a litter higher?

 Is there any research related to this topic? Is there any detailed analysis on the reduction ratio?

 Thanks for reading.



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 Cho, Jeong-woo
 
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