Hi everyone,<br><br>I have a question on which I would like to get some comments.<br><br>To what extent the current analytic models of TCP accurately capture
the (real) behaviour of TCP?
Does
there exist a body of work which analytically characterizes the TCP
latency and throughput taking into consideration the effects of
bi-directional traffic (factors like ACK Compression, reduced forward
path capacity due to the presence of ACKs etc) on TCP flows? I am aware
about some observational studies and some work related to mitigating
the effects of ACK Compression and asymmetric links (e.g. prioritizing ACKs, applying backpressure, connection-level
bandwidth allocation schemes etc) but my question pertains to analytical work.
<br><br>Thanks in advance.<br><br>Ihsan<br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Ihsan Ayyub Qazi<br>PhD Student, Department of Computer Science<br>6803 Sennott Square, University of Pittsburgh<br>Pittsburgh, PA 15260<br>WWW: <a href="http://www.cs.pitt.edu/~ihsan">
http://www.cs.pitt.edu/~ihsan</a>