Re: [Tsvwg] HS-TCP/FAST-TCP: Kind of Packet Loss?
Sally Floyd <floyd@icir.org> Wed, 23 July 2003 21:17 UTC
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From: Sally Floyd <floyd@icir.org>
Subject: Re: [Tsvwg] HS-TCP/FAST-TCP: Kind of Packet Loss?
Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2003 14:16:16 -0700
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>I think packet corruption is not currently the greatest problem. There >are a number of other causes of packet loss, including: > - intermittent flows starting up (punching holes with slow-start) > - misbehaving switches > - burstiness, and a small router buffer > >When these things cause cwnd to be halved on the order of once every few >minutes, they can seriously degrade the performance of high-BDP flows. A >faster response time can really help, and I think is ultimately necessary >if we expect end-to-end congestion control to work in messy networks at >large window sizes. Yep! I agree that packet corruption is not the motivating problem here. - Sally _______________________________________________ tsvwg mailing list tsvwg@ietf.org https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/tsvwg
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