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RE: [ns] goodput calculation
On Wed, 13 Jun 2001, Michael Welzl wrote:
> Now it gets really confusing. I was already somewhat confused when I
> read the "bug report" message on your web page ... in fact it's
> right before me among the pile of papers :)
>
> Anyway, having read that, I was convinced that I should stop fooling
> around with bound variables and just use the trace-all source file.
> What is wrong about it??? After all, you see every packet that arrives
> at a TCP sink. Isn't this goodput?
No, it isn't. (sigh.) It's just network capacity use. Program your
TCP sender to send out every packet twice, and hey, you could
double your 'goodput' -- but in reality, good put won't change at all.
L.
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