Re: [tcpm] Increasing the Initial Window - Notes

[Hagen Paul Pfeifer <[e-mail]>]

* Jerry Chu | 2010-11-10 18:05:25 [-0800]:

>Let's assume IW's effect diminishes as flows run longer, so you're probably
>not concerned about your flows running IW10 but more concerned about any
>collateral damage IW10 might bring to your ftp flows. Do you realize browsers
>have silently increased the # of simultaneous connections opened from 2 to 6
>in the past few years, partly to get an effective boost to IW without any
>plan for standardization. Have you been concerned about the equivalent effect
>to your customers in the past few years? Browsers may continue to increase #
>of simultaneous opens if it helps performance. If they do, are you going to
>do something about it?

If the number of browser flow is the problem then do you think the draft which
address TCP fundamentally is the right answer? Not sure, you are right that I
worry about collateral damage for some kind of networks.

IMHO we should act careful with increasing the IW, I am skeptical and all
material that I saw does not appease me. I started to build a multi-hop ns-3
test setup, no dumpbell scenario, a flat multi-hop test setup but it stocked
because of lack of time.

Hagen