[e2e] Are we doing sliding window in the Internet?

[Lachlan Andrew]

Greetings,

On 02/01/07, Joe Touch <touch at isi.edu> wrote:
>
> Detlef Bosau wrote:
> > Round    CWND
> >    1              2
> >    2              4
> >    3              8
>
> It doesn't double each RTT; it goes up by 50%. Remember, the window
> grows by one MSS each ACK during the initial phase, but there is one ACK
> for each two MSS's.

If you have ABC (as recent Linux senders do by default), or don't use
delayed ACKs (as Linux receivers don't when the window is small),
Detlef was right that it doubles each RTT.

$0.02
Lachlan

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