Modeled with just simple FTP sessions? Ugh: they admitted to having MIT backbone packet traces to analyze, and then used that simple of a simulator...
George William Herbert Sent from my iPhone On Oct 23, 2012, at 8:29 PM, Rodrick Brown <rodrick.br...@gmail.com> wrote: > "With coded TCP, blocks of packets are clumped together and then > transformed into algebraic equations that describe the packets. If > part of the message is lost, the receiver can solve the equation to > derive the missing data. The process of solving the equations is > simple and linear, meaning it doesn't require much processing on > behalf of the router/smartphone/laptop. In testing, the coded TCP > resulted in some dramatic improvements. MIT found that campus WiFi (2% > packet loss) jumped from 1Mbps to 16Mbps. On a fast-moving train (5% > packet loss), the connection speed jumped from 0.5Mbps to 13.5Mbps." > > http://www.mit.edu/~medard/papers2011/Modeling%20Network%20Coded%20TCP.pdf > > --RB >