1. Reducing Flow-Completion Time for Small Flows by Modifying Slow-Start Affan Rauf (05030063)

2. Problem Slow start stretches a small over several RTTs even if they are capable to complete in few About 70% of the gateway traffic consists of Web transfers About 85% of the packets are transferred by the server while flows are still in their slow start phase

3. Recent Suggestions RFC 3390 TCP’s initial window increased to 2-4 segments Network Adaptive TCP Slow Start (closest to the idea I had in mind) Uses past history from other connections and the file size

4. My Hypothesis Why can’t we can guess if the congestion is decreasing based upon a few recent round trip delays Being optimistic we can increase the window size e.g. by extrapolation

5. Issues How much to increase congestion window without adding to the congestion? Is linear interpolation and the gradient of the line a good estimate? Can we scale it for longer flows?

6. Line of Action Comparison with RFC 3390’s results (based on Flow-completion time) Effect on throughput in the presence of AQM techniques.

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