Re: Why do we need congestion control?

Am 02.04.2013 18:15, schrieb LOCHIN Emmanuel:
>
> Hi Detlef
>
> In these papers the authors consider "perfect code", meaning that all 
> the redundancy is useful.
> Look at our implementation of Decongestion Control Protocol : 
> http://www.lochin.net/tetrysjungle.pdf
> where full reliability is achieved without retransmission.
>
> Manu
>

I only qoute one sentence:

> the recovery delay is
> independent of the RTT


Hm. I think, we exchanged some pm on this issue, however: either I don't 
understand this sentence or I don't believe it.

Perhaps, I misunderstand ist completely. However, your paper and others 
insinuate that with erasure codes a recovery the time for a packet 
transfer is somehow statistically bounded. Where is the fault in my way 
of thinking?

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