[e2e] TCP un-friendly congestion control

Christian Huitema huitema at windows.microsoft.com
Fri Jun 6 14:29:17 PDT 2003


> exactly -- that's the whole point, the packet rate is so high that
> there are many chances to have occasional losses anywhere in the
> system, not just due to the channel but even because of operating
> system issues on some of the intermediate boxes or end nodes.

There is another, related, issue. Stable control more or less require
that you get a frequent control events. If we wanted to keep the current
algorithm at high speed, then we would get something like one control
event every 5000 RTT. That does not look very stable.

-- Christian Huitema




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