Re: HTTP/2 and TCP CWND

Eliot Lear <lear@cisco.com> Fri, 19 April 2013 06:36 UTC

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Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2013 08:33:27 +0200
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On this one point:

On 4/19/13 6:08 AM, Wesley Eddy wrote:
>
>> * It's always arguable on how valid the CWND is... but then, this is
>> true of any starting condition. So the question really is: Is past value
>> from some XXX time ago less/more wrong on average than starting with an
>> arbitrary constant?
>
> It is a great research question, and very interesting.
>
> The things to look at are what the impact of being wrong on different
> granularities is, and what the likelihood of being wrong at different
> granularities is.

And just as a reminder, Cisco has an open Request for Proposals[1] for
all things HTTP2, of which we would consider this part.

Eliot

[1]
http://www.cisco.com/web/about/ac50/ac207/crc_new/university/RFP/rfp13077.html