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Re: [tcpm] Increasing the Initial Window - Notes

rick jones <perfgeek@mac.com> Sat, 13 November 2010 19:10 UTC

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From: rick jones <perfgeek@mac.com>
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On Nov 13, 2010, at 5:37 AM, Marco Mellia wrote:
> Today, 3G networks are already overloaded, with the bottleneck being  
> the downlink capacity at the baystation.

Is there any way to know how much of that overload is what one might  
call "do overs?"  Where a "do over" is not a TCP retransmission, but  
an application-level resending of data because the consumer got  
impatient and re-issued the request.

rick jones

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