[e2e] concurrent TCP connections - how likely are they?

[Michael Savoric]

Hi,
I am searching for investigations at huge (WWW) servers to
find
out how likely is it to have more than a single TCP
connection
to the same destination or the same subnetwork at a given
time.

* Do you know some links or papers with regard to this
topic?

* Or is it possible to get (anonymized) traces from such
servers
  that I can make my own investigations?


The background is:
I have developed a common congestion controller for TCP
connections
in ns-2 and a Linux implementation has been written by one
of my students.
Both simulation and measurement results show that such a
common
congestion controller reaches (large) performance gains.
In addition, together with some colleagues I have
analytically shown
that my common congestion controller is not more aggressive
to the
network than standard TCP in its "best case" (Proceedings of
ITC 18,
September 2003, Berlin).

What I need now is citeable material to motivate the usage
of a common
congestion controller in the Internet.

Best regards,
Michael Savoric

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