Subject: Re: [Tsvwg] queries on draft-ietf-tsvwg-sctpimpguide-05.txt

From: Qiaobing Xie <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2003 18:45:06 -0600

Hi, Armando,

"Armando L. Caro Jr." wrote:
....
> >       Originally, Max.Burst was applied only in the case of a SACK
> > acknowledging fast retransmitted DATA Chunks. However, Max.Burst is
> > now used always. Note that this is a modification to the general
> > congestion control algorithm.
> 
> Yes, this change was made to avoid bursts at any time. Max.Burst was left
> as a parameter, because we don't really know what an acceptable burst
> is... 4 was a reasonable number chosen earlier, so we stuck with it.

Do you have a reference to any analysis/discussion on the impact of this change to
the data throughput over a long, fat SCTP connection? (or similar analysis for
long fat TCP connections).

regards,
-Qiaobing
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