A Header Prediction: (was Re: [e2e] congestion control for flows w. small packets)

[Simon Spero]

--On Tuesday, November 20, 2001 2:25 PM +0000 Lloyd Wood 
<l.wood at eim.surrey.ac.uk> wrote:

> At small sizes the 40-octet minimum header overhead (more for IPv6,
> tunnelling, IPSec) counts for a lot. (ns doesn't distinguish between
> segment/packet in its one-way TCP implementation; I've found this
> important...)

Predicition: header size for a protocol  will increase monotonically until 
the maximum payload size is 48 bytes.