[Iccrg] review of Compound TCP draft

[Lachlan Andrew]

Greetings Murari,

In the C-TCP specification, it is probably also worth pointing out
that the formula for  dwnd  only applies if  dwnd  is measured in
*packets*, not bytes.

Most RFCs seem to implicitly assume that the variable  cwnd  refers to
the number of bytes (even though it is incremented in multiples of
MSS).  For most flow control, this makes no difference.  However,
    dwnd = 1 packet    =>   dwnd^0.75 = 1
    dwnd = 1500 bytes  =>  dwnd^0.75 = 241
and so increase rule (3) in  draft-sridharan-tcpm-ctcp-01.txt  is much
more aggressive when  dwnd  is measured in packets.

Cheers,
Lachlan

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