TCP Pace Yourself

TCP congestion control strives to optimize network goodput while minimizing packet loss by moderating transmission speed. Unfortunately, the way that congestion control moderates transmission often r...
Published Mar 14, 2014
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Dawn_Parzych_20
Mar 14, 2014
Jose, Rate pacing works in conjunction with the initial congestion window. Many of our TCP profiles have the initial congestion set to 10 as that does help significantly with the transmission of short-lived TCP connections like web transactions. Changing the initial congestion window results in a faster TCP start up process as many web transactions complete before exiting slow start. Traffic bursts can still occur on the network with the initial congestion window set to 10. I propose using both an initial congestion window of 10 and rate pacing for the best user experience