[Iccrg] Re: ADPM & incremental deployment

[Michael Scharf]

On Mon, 03 Nov 2008 at 16:14:31, Lachlan Andrew wrote:
> >> [LA]: That is true if "as cautiously as it always has" is the right
> >> default
> >> behaviour.  People are proposing starting slow start faster anyway,
> >
> > [BB]: Are these proposals based on any theory (not that slow start is backed
> > by any theory other than the 'it seems to work' theory)?
> 
> Nothing quantitative that I know of.  Dirceu, do you know?

[MS] Unfortunately, I am also not aware of any sound theory in this
field. However, there are approaches that essentially state "let's
start faster than slow-start only in some selected cases". As long as
"selected"=="few", one can assume that this is likely to work not much
worse than the existing slow start. And the long-tailed flow size
distribution might indeed help somehow.

Just my 2 cents

Michael