> On 19 May, 2019, at 1:36 am, David P. Reed <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Pardon, but cwnd should NEVER be larger than the number of forwarding hops 
> between source and destination.
> Kleinrock and students recently proved that the optimum cwnd for both 
> throughput and minimized latency is achieved when there is one packet or less 
> in each outbound queue from source to destination (including cross traffic - 
> meaning other flows sharing the same outbound queue.

This argument holds only if time-of-flight *between* nodes is negligible.  
Trivially, a geosynchronous satellite hop adds only two nodes but approximately 
half a second to the one-way path delay, with potentially thousands of packets 
existing only as radio waves in the distance between, not in a queue.

 - Jonathan Morton

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