in our discussion of tcp congestion control in section 3.7, we implicitly assumed that the tcp sender always had data to send. consider now the case that the tcp sender sends a large amount of data and then goes idle (since it has no more data to send) at t 1. tcp remains idle for a relatively long period of time and then wants to send more data at t 2. what are the advantages and disadvantages of having tcp use the cwnd and ssthresh values from t 1 when starting to send data at t 2? what alternative would you recommend? why?



Answer :

Other Questions