[e2e] TCP Loss Differentiation

[Detlef Bosau]

Injong Rhee wrote:
> You missed my point. I am commenting on *when we should disregard a
> packet loss for congestion control* in particular. My speculaiton is
> that it might be ok to react to losses only when they are from
> congestion. I am suggesting one way to differentiate congestion losses
> from the other losses (which we don't have clear model for).
> Therefore, instead of trying to explicitly model non-congestion
> losses, just model congestion losses which we understand it a bit
> better and react to them.
>

This would make sense to me if the proposal were to disregard losses for
congestion control anyway (to put it in a very sharpened form) and
initiate congestion action by valid congestion detection mechanisms,
e.g. ECN. Does this match your idea in a better way?

Detlef


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