[e2e] Is a non-TCP solution dead?

[Jon Crowcroft]

In missive <DAC3FCB50E31C54987CD10797DA511BA027E11E9 at WIN-MSG-10.wingroup.windeploy.ntdev.microsoft.c
om>, "Christian Huitema" typed:

 >>I suggest people read:

 >>S. Shenker, "Making Greed Work in Networks: A Game-Theoretic Analysis of
 >>Switch Service Disciplines," in SIGCOMM Symposium on Communications
 >>Architectures and Protocols, (London, UK), pp. 47-57, Sept. 1994.

Yes, and
Rate control in communication networks: shadow prices, proportional fairness and stability
F. P. Kelly, A.K. Maulloo and D.K.H. Tan (Statistical Laboratory, University of Cambridge)
Journal of the Operational Research Society 49 (1998), 237-252. 
http://www.statslab.cam.ac.uk/~frank/rate.html

together, these make for a pretty solid argument for "tcp friendliness" 
which i have yet to see any effective refutation.

j.