[e2e] TCP Local Area Normal behaviour? any references?

[Jon Crowcroft]

um, yes i recall that - any  pointers to papers/web page/results appreciated.

We are a bit like Sigmund Freud :-
we base an entire "science" on pathological behaviour,
but most TCP connections are not congested, 
just like most people aren't crazy
(or tell awful austrian 19th century jokes:)

how many papers written on bottleneck behaviour 
and how few on whats normal?- what we need is
the Alex Comfort of TCP, so to speak...

hmm - i foresee a whole new conference on
packet loss and the unconscious
and
beyond the AIMD principle
and
endless arguments about IP SLA archetypes and TCP mandalas

:-)

In missive <20050121180410.GA6946 at isi.edu>, Aaron Falk typed:

 >>Jon Crowcroft wrote:
 >>> 
 >>> how fair/efficient is TCP in normal operation when there's no router
 >>> or buffer in an intermediate node (yes i knoiw some switches have
 >>> more than 1 packet buffers but ignore those)
 >>
 >>I seem to recall Matt Mathis talking about this at IETF around 5 years
 >>ago in the context of MAC 'capture effects'.
 >>
 >>--aaron

 cheers

   jon