[e2e] Simple Question on TCP Window Size

[Guo, Liang]

Please refer to:

[FHP00] A Comparison of Equation-Based and AIMD Congestion Control. 
    Sally Floyd, Mark Handley, and Jitendra Padhye.
    May 2000. Preliminary version. (postscript, gzipped postscript, PDF). 

http://www.aciri.org/tfrc/


On Wed, 9 May 2001, Jeong-woo Cho wrote:

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>  Hi, everyone.
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>  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.
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>  Why don't we set the reduction ratio a litter higher?
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>  Is there any research related to this topic? Is there any detailed analysis on the reduction ratio?
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>  Thanks for reading.
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