AW: [e2e] TCP un-friendly congestion control

Michael Welzl michael.welzl at uibk.ac.at
Sun Jun 8 09:59:29 PDT 2003


> indefensible, because there is no sound economic argument that supports
> either "fairness" or the maintanence of bottlenecks despite the customers
> having money they would gladly invest in eliminating the bottleneck.
>
> "Fairness" is an arbitrary engineering judgement that disregards the
> relative importance of flows, and the idea of keeping the bottleneck full
> disregards the relative importance of reduction of latency for certain
> types of flows.

Not true for proportional fairness, I would say.

Best regards,
Michael





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