RH Ideas
Separate congestion handling from packet xmit
Treat all congestion signals identically
SACK, Duplicate Acks, ECN
On congestion, send one packet per two ACKs for one RTT
Based on ideas by Janey Hoe
Virtually eliminate unnecessary timeouts
Only needed when cwnd falls below 1 packet
Algorithm general enough to apply beyond TCP
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Novell
NLANR/NCNE
Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center