Discuss what happens if the N transmissions all start simultaneously
When designing, implementing and enforcing flow on your network information highway, you needn’t worry about handing out speeding tickets to non-law-abiding bytes, but you do have to worry about traffic congestion and bottlenecks.
Congestion issues are managed by TCP congestion control; when it receives signals of increased traffic, its algorithm manages traffic by redirecting flow and redefining threshold. In this Discussion, you will explore how TCP handles congestion control.
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N-number TCP connections are present over some bottleneck link of rate R bps. All N connections have a huge file to send in the same direction, over the same bottleneck link.
1- Discuss what happens if the N transmissions all start simultaneously.
2- Explain and reason how TCP congestion control will react: for example, describe what transmission rate TCP would give each of the connections.
3- Also explain how the bottleneck grows for each addition to N-number of TCP connections. For each additional connection, is latency growth logarithmic, linear or exponential?
4- List possible solutions to the TCP congestion control problem.