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| n | Early
analysis does not accurately model real TCP |
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| n | With
large RTO granularity, interference is |
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| unlikely,
if time required for link-level |
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| retransmission
is small compared to TCP RTO |
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| – | Standard
TCP RTO granularity is often large (500 ms) |
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| – | Minimum
RTO (2*granularity) is large enough to allow |
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small number of link level retransmissions, if link |
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| level
RTT is relatively small |
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| – | Interference
due to timeout not a significant issue when |
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| wireless
RTT small, and RTO granularity large |
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