Relationship to Window Sizes

Source

Sink

Router w/queue

l

m

D

B

• In the case of a window-based protocol:

  • recall, throughput is ~ w/RTT
  • so, need (l = w/RTT) <= m
  • or: w <= (D m) [bandwidth-delay product]
  • equality achieves maximum utilization

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