TCP payload size and throughput

[Mark Allman]

> I know there is some relationship between the packet size and the TCP
> throughput.  But what if two TCP Sack flows have the same MTU size,
> but different header size (hence different payload size) ? Is there
> any work that model this issue before?

Yeah ... the TCP model that Padhye, et.al. worked out in their 1998
SIGCOMM paper shows that performance is directly proportional to packet
size.

allman



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