[e2e] MSS and cwnd increase

Kim Taehyun-R01121 Taehyun.Kim at freescale.com
Mon Jul 3 08:35:48 PDT 2006


I studied a similar problem (video streaming over TCP) to quantify the
impact of TCP on the buffering delay.  Please refer
http://www-static.cc.gatech.edu/~ammar/papers/vcip_final.pdf

Tkim


> -----Original Message-----
> From: end2end-interest-bounces at postel.org 
> [mailto:end2end-interest-bounces at postel.org] On Behalf Of 
> Salman Abdul Baset
> Sent: Sunday, July 02, 2006 1:45 AM
> To: Joe Touch
> Cc: end2end-interest at postel.org
> Subject: Re: [e2e] MSS and cwnd increase
> 
> 
> We want to understand the TCP behavior when it carries 
> cbr(voice) traffic. You might be aware that Skype is also 
> sending voice over TCP in certain scenarios.
> 
> Ofcourse, I am not going to suggest that it is a good idea to 
> do that; rather, we are trying to understand various 
> circumstances (packet loss, delay) under which a Skype like 
> application can possibly send voice traffic over TCP without 
> incurring too much delay and jitter. NAT and firewall 
> restrictions are examples of settings where an application 
> may want to send voice over TCP. Again, the purpose is to 
> understand the effects and this does not imply that we are 
> recommending this practice.
> 
> regards,
> Salman
> 
> 
> On Sat, 1 Jul 2006, Joe Touch wrote:
> 
> >
> >
> > Salman Abdul Baset wrote:
> > > I am wondering how the Linux 2.6 updates its congestion 
> window when 
> > > a CBR stream (packet size << MSS) is sent over TCP.
> >
> > The better question is why are you sending CBR over TCP?
> >
> > Joe
> >
> >
> 


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