On Wed, Apr 12, 2006 at 05:26:51PM +0100, Michael Rogers wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > > When a packet is successfully transmitted we increment the window size > > by b. When a packet is lost we multiply it by a. We send packets every > > (round trip time / window size). > > > > This is definitely TCP-friendly? > > This is definitely not TCP-friendly - it's not even AIMD. You never > leave slow-start mode, so the window size increases exponentially until > you lose a packet.
How does it increase exponentially? "We increment the window size by b"! > > In the first RTT there will be one packet and one ack, so the window > will increase by b to 1+b. In the second RTT there will be 1+b packets > and 1+b acks, so the window size will increase by 1+b to 2+2b. In the > third RTT there will be 2+2b packets and 2+2b acks, so the window size > will increase by 2+2b to 4+4b, etc. It's not windowed. The window is simply a device to determine the rate at which we should send packets. > > Cheers, > Michael -- Matthew J Toseland - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Freenet Project Official Codemonkey - http://freenetproject.org/ ICTHUS - Nothing is impossible. Our Boss says so.
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