Re: types of traffic in tcp congest control

[Joe Touch <[e-mail]>]

J Wu wrote:
> Hi Li,
...
> 
> As my understanding of S.Low's paper that the mice stands for small scale
> transmition with delay sensitive and the elephant stands for large scale
> transmition. The small scale transmitions will not cause any congestion,
> but the large scale transmitions will. 

That is an assumption, one which other results, notably of bandwidth 
limited highly-shared core links (e.g., the US-UK link) refute. They 
indicate that mice can indeed cause congestion amongst themselves, even 
in the absence of elephants.

Joe