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Rate of convergence for the ‘square root formula’ in the Internet transmission control protocol
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 08 September 2016
Abstract
The ‘square root formula’ in the Internet transmission control protocol (TCP) states that if the probability p of packet loss becomes small and there is independence between packets, then the stationary distribution of the congestion window W is such that the distribution of W√p is almost independent of p and is completely characterizable. This paper gives an elementary proof of the convergence of the stationary distributions for a much wider class of processes that includes classical TCP as well as T. Kelly's ‘scalable TCP’. This paper also gives stochastic dominance results that translate to a rate of convergence.
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