On Wed, Apr 12, 2006 at 08:21:26PM +0100, Michael Rogers wrote:
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> > Increment the window size by 1/window size when a packet succeeds.
> > Halve it when one fails.
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> That's what TCP does in congestion avoidance mode (ie when cwind >
> ssthresh) but it's less aggressive than what TCP does in slow start
> mode, so connections will take longer to reach full speed and to return
> to full speed after a packet loss. You might not get great link
> utilisation but it seems like a good compromise because it avoids the
> complexity of calculating ssthresh.

This is why we need to have it on a per link (node to node) basis rather
than on a per transfer basis. (Transfers only have 32 packets, so there
isn't much point...). And we need to persist it.
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> Cheers,
> Michael
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