Re: [R-C] Simplifying the TCP throughput algorithm

On 29 Mar 2012, at 13:19, Harald Alvestrand wrote:

On 03/29/2012 01:07 PM, Ali C. Begen (abegen) wrote:

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I suppose these were random losses? This is just putting numbers into the TCP throughput algorithm from the TCP-Friendly RFC using its parameter p, and trying to see what the implications of the result are.

I presume that p was assumed to be random in the derivation of the formula.

It's a loss event rate. The equation gives a conservative value for the throughput if the loss is bursty. Colin