[e2e] TCP to exhibit MTU unfairness?

[Lachlan Andrew]

Greetings Detlef,

On 13/11/2007, Detlef Bosau <detlef.bosau at web.de> wrote:
>
> Hm. Just a question on RTT fairness: Is it intended to have the same RTT
> for competing flows sharing a bottleneck?

No, in general flows will have different RTTs.  I was just mentioning
that some flow control algorithm aim to give them an equal share of
the capacity, despite having unequal RTTs.

> However, when TCP congestion control achieves fairness of capacity
> usage, I would well accept when two competing flows do not achieve
> exactly the same throughput although they share a common bottleneck. Do
> you agree here?

Fairness between heterogeneous flows is complicated.  If a flow
traverses multiple congested links, it is sensible to give it a lower
rate than others using only one of those links.  However, I haven't
seen any compelling reason that the rates should depend on RTT or
packet size.

I wasn't meaning to get into a debate about fairness; I was just
explaining Daniel's original post.

Cheers,
Lachlan

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