Subject: Re: Packet Loss Rate

From: Vern Paxson <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 07 Sep 1999 02:04:25 PDT

> A good starting point seems to be to look at:
> M. Mathis, J. Semke, J. Mahdavi, T. Ott, "The Macroscopic Behavior of
> the TCP Congestion Avoidance Algorithm", Computer Communication Review,
> volume 27, number 3, pp. 67-82, July 1997, which you can get a copy of
> at
> 	http://www.psc.edu/networking/papers/papers.html
> ...
> I'd be interested to hear about any work people are doing to refine, or
> expand this result.

See:
	J. Padhye, V. Firoiu, D. Towsley, J. Kurose ``Modeling TCP
	Throughput:  A Simple Model and its Empirical Validation'',
	SIGCOMM '98.

	ftp://gaia.cs.umass.edu/pub/Padhye-Firoiu98-TCP-throughput.ps.Z

		Vern