Kacheong Poon wrote:
>
> > TCP is still bursty over high bandwidth-delay product links while inflating
> > the congestion window. Basically everything in the window is trasmitted at
> > once, and when ACKs arrive, the process repeats with a larger window. Thus
> > larger windows cause the burstiness to proceed for longer amounts of time.
>
> What do you mean by "trasmitted at once?" TCP does not send the whole window
> all at once. Do you mean the case when after the link is idle for some time,
> TCP can send the whole window at once? I think this has been discussed before
> and the problem is an implementation bug. Joe Touch has a note on this.
Yup - also an ID that has expired. We've had an implementation with
a nasty bug, sadly back-burnered a while. The original ID is at:
http://www.isi.edu/touch/pubs/tcpimpl-restart-00.txt
(we do plan to find a grad student to fix this...)
Joe
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