Matthew Toseland wrote: > Simulations maybe? You could find simulation parameters (link speed, latency, reordering) where less than 5% of the retransmissions would be unnecessary, and other parameters where more than 5% would be unnecessary. Without an adaptive mechanism it's hard to know which parameters are realistic. That's why the reordering paper threw me for a loop - I'd assumed we could just pick a single realistic value, but some links seem to reorder much more than others.
> What exactly does TCP do? I thought it combined ack's with data in order > to minimize overhead. Right - data will be piggybacked on an ack if there's any data waiting (and the same's true for the current simulation code). But if there's no data waiting the ack will be sent on its own. Cheers, Michael
