[e2e] TCP Local Area Normal behaviour? any references?

[Jon Crowcroft]

this is mainly for educational reasons, not research:

so i am looking for any papers or dissertations about the typical behaviour of TCP on a LAN - I cannot find
anything that doesnt include some intermediate device which is a bottleneck, but I 'd love to see a set of 
traces/analyses of a few of today's typical TCP implementations (lets say win98, XP, OSX, bsd, linux and some commercial
unix server ones) between typical cliens and servers on 10/100 (perhaps gigE)...

its sort of boring and i guess hard to get published but its quite hard to explain and is the base case when
starting to teach TCP (and i know there's lots of "corner case" code which means that MTU and window choices may be
difference ...)

pointers appreciated...

j.