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Authors:
James F. Kurose, Keith W. Ross
Chapter:
Transport Layer
Exercise:
Problems
Question:42 | ISBN:9780132856201 | Edition: 6

Question

In Section 3.5.4, we discussed the doubling of the timeout interval after a timeout event. This mechanism is a form of congestion control. Why does TCP need a window-based congestion-control mechanism (as studied in Section 3.7) in addition to this doubling-timeout-interval mechanism?

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If TCP were a stop-and-wait protocol, then the doubling of the time out interval would suffice as a congestion control mechanism. However, TCP uses pipelining (and is therefore not a stop-and-wait protocol), which allows the sender to have multiple outstanding unacknowledged segments. The doubling of the timeout interval does not prevent a TCP sender from sending a large number of first-time-transmitted packets into the network, even when the end-to-end path is highly congested. Therefore a congestion- control mechanism is needed to stem the flow of “data received from the application above” when there are signs of network congestion.

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