[e2e] Are Packet Trains / Packet Bursts a Problem in TCP?

[Lachlan Andrew]

Greetings Fred,

On 26/09/06, Fred Baker <fred at cisco.com> wrote:
> On Sep 26, 2006, at 10:51 AM, Detlef Bosau wrote:
>
> The big problem in pacing is determining the rate available at the
> bottleneck.

That seems to be confusing rate control with scheduling.

A pacing scheme can measure the RTT and still maintain a "window"
(even though not used as a sliding window), following the standard
rules of (New)Reno/SACK/H-TCP/...

If we pace packets out at a rate "window / RTT" then we transmit at
the same average rate as if we used ACK-clocking.  The only difference
is that the packets are sent with roughly equal spacing in the case of
pacing, and sent irregularly with pure ACK-clocking.

Am I missing something?

Cheers,
Lachlan

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