On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 1:22 PM, Colin Perkins <csp@csperkins.org> wrote:

On 29 Mar 2012, at 13:19, Harald Alvestrand wrote:
> On 03/29/2012 01:07 PM, Ali C. Begen (abegen) wrote:
>> 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.

Which is likely for queues employing tail dropping.