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- Path: sparky!uunet!mcsun!sunic!sics.se!craig
- From: craig@sics.se (Craig Partridge)
- Subject: theoretical support for hop-by-hop, not!
- Message-ID: <1992Nov10.184946.14017@sics.se>
- Organization: Swedish Institute of Computer Science, Kista
- Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 18:49:46 GMT
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- "Allen Robel" <cell@mythos.ucs.indiana.edu> writes:
-
- > they compared
- > their hop by hop (HBH) scheme of flow control to TCP as implemented in
- > 4.3-Tahoe BSD (they also compare HBH with the modified window adjustment
- > in the 4.3 BSD Reno version of TCP). Their results seem to indicate
- > that, in a network with a high bandwidth-delay product, TCP exhibits
- > very large oscillations in end-to-end delay, and takes about 100
- > round trip times (losing about 190 packets) before a link becomes
- > fully utilized. In contrast, HBH loses NO packets and maintains
- > a very even end-to-end delay variance. Note that I'm not condoning
- > their scheme. I'm just saying that there are schemes out there that
- > do better in the area of flow control than current implementations of
- > TCP in high speed networks.
-
- I'd just like to note that the jury is still out on these results.
- In general, the literature (both theory, simulation and practice) shows
- end-to-end flow control outperforming hop-by-hop. And I've heard folks
- question whether the representation of TCP-IP in the model was accurate.
- Certainly, given the weight of results one way, it is not clear that one
- dissenting paper should be sufficient to lead us.
-
- Craig
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