[e2e] Why do we need TCP flow control (rwnd)?

[Lloyd Wood]

On 2 Jul 2008, at 00:56, Fred Baker wrote:
> The thing that I find a little hard to grasp is why folks might have  
> thought the network was Poisson in the first place.

I doubt they did; it was chosen because it made the arithmetic  
tractable.

"First, assume a spherical cow..."

L.
[..]

> I think the thing that makes Gaussian and Poisson models attractive  
> is the relative simplicity of their math. With Gaussian models we  
> can discuss standard deviations, and with poisson models we can pull  
> formulae out of textbooks. But in both cases, they are more  
> conservative than we observe, and have predictive only to the extent  
> that they are used as conceptual limits.

DTN work: http://info.surrey.ac.uk/Personal/L.Wood/saratoga/

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