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... encoding function. This is illustrated in Table 1
below. For the four-bit Rate Request field, the request range is
from 80 Kbps to 1.3 Gbps. Alternate encodings that were considered
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... Quick-Start Request packet dropped:
Measurement studies cited earlier [MAF04] suggest that on a wide
range of paths in the Internet, TCP SYN packets containing unknown IP
options ...
... per second) while the GPRS round-trip times range typically
from a few hundred milliseconds to over a second, excluding any
possible queueing delays in the network ...
... Quick-Start mechanism, or another mechanism of similar power, could
be of significant benefit to a wide range of traffic. We are
presenting the Quick-Start mechanism ...
... transport protocols for high-bandwidth transfers, could go a
significant way towards extending the range of performance for best-
effort traffic ...
... Quick-Start Request. The main requirements for
this function is that it should have a sufficiently wide range for
the requested rate. There is no need for overly fine-grained
precision in the requested rate. Similarly, while it would be
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... If a granularity of factors of two is sufficient for the Rate
Request, then the encoding function with the most range would be for
the requested rate to be K*2^N; for N, the value in the Rate Request
field; and for K, some constant. For N=0, the rate request would be
...
... encoding function. For example, for
K=40,000 and an eight-bit Rate Request field, the request range would
be from 80 Kbps to 40*2^255 Kbps. This clearly would be an
unnecessarily large request range ...
... range would
be from 80 Kbps to 40*2^255 Kbps. This clearly would be an
unnecessarily large request range.
For a four-bit Rate ...
... such an assumption would require more analysis at this point,
particularly in a network with a range of packet dropping mechanisms
at the router, and we cannot recommend it at this time.
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... uses when deciding whether to approve a Quick-Start Rate Request or
whether and how to reduce a Rate Request. A range of algorithms is
likely useful in this space and we consider the algorithm ...