[Tmrg] sending rate of a TCP flow

[aydin at mail.eecis.udel.edu (aydin at mail.eecis.udel.edu)]

Hello,

Based on the TCP-friendly equation, sending rate of a TCP flow depends on
RTT, MSS, and loss rate.

hypothesis: When N long-lived TCP flows (with the same RTT and MSS values)
share a bottleneck link in a dumbbell  topology (all the edge links have
the same delay and bandwidth), I expect each TCP flow to have the same
sending rate -- Assume no other cross traffic in the network and drop-tail
queues.

Do you know any references (simulation-, emulation-, or real
experiment-based studies) that prove this hypothesis or the opposite?


thanks,
ilknur Aydin