Re: [ns] vegas behavior...

[Lloyd Wood <l.wood@eim.surrey.ac.uk>]

On Sat, 9 Sep 2000, Pablo Souki Mauricio Jiminez wrote:

> does any one know the statistical behavior of
> TCP/Vegas, or has any one studied it?

Vegas has some considerable literature describing it, and it's not
exactly hard to find.
http://www.google.com/search?q=tcp%20vegas
http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/cs?q=tcp+vegas

The most comprehensive recent treatment of Vegas using ns appears to
be:

S. H. Low, Larry Peterson and Limin Wang, Understanding Vegas: Theory
and Practice, Submitted for publication, Feb., 2000 
http://www.ee.mu.oz.au/staff/slow/research/

AFAIK no-one's got around to doing a Vegas variant implementing SACK,
which might be worth exploring and comparing against the Reno-based
SACK, already in ns, under RED.

L.

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