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Contents 6<br />

6.1.3 H-TCP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116<br />

6.1.4 BicTCP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119<br />

6.1.5 FAST . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122<br />

6.2 Discussion <strong>and</strong> Deployment Considerations of New-TCP Algorithms<br />

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124<br />

6.2.1 Scalability <strong>and</strong> Network Utilisation . . . . . . . . . . . 125<br />

6.2.2 Buffering <strong>and</strong> Packet Bursts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129<br />

6.2.3 Interaction with Legacy <strong>and</strong> other Traffic . . . . . . . . 131<br />

6.3 Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133<br />

7 Testing Framework for the Evaluation of New-TCP Algorithms<br />

135<br />

7.1 Metrics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136<br />

7.1.1 Goodput . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136<br />

7.1.2 Stability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137<br />

7.1.3 Convergence Time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137<br />

7.1.4 Fairness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138<br />

7.1.5 Friendliness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140<br />

7.1.6 Overhead . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140<br />

7.2 Environment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141<br />

7.3 Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144<br />

8 Systematic Tests of New-TCP Behaviour 145<br />

8.1 Methodology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145<br />

8.1.1 Dummynet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146<br />

8.1.2 altAIMD Kernel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147<br />

8.1.3 Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149

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