Re: State of TCP Fairness Question

From: Mark Allman (mallman@grc.nasa.gov)
Date: Mon Mar 12 2001 - 22:07:22 EST

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    > - TCP may be biased against connections with long RTTs because the
    > additive increase time is roughly one segment per RTT. Connections
    > with longer RTTs take longer to ramp up and while this is
    > happening those with smaller RTTs can acquire available
    > bandwidth. TCP constant rate algorithm as suggested by Floyd and
    > later Henderson, et al paper could overcome this limitation by
    > "equalizing" the rate by which senders with different RTTs
    > increase their sending rates during congestion avoidance. Not
    > implemented.

    You mean "not implemented due to unresolved issues". I can't
    remember all the details (see RFC 2760 for a discussion of this --
    written by Henderson), but there are certainly downsides to a
    constant rate increase.

    allman

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