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Re: Congestion control train-wreck workshop at Stanford: Call for Demos


From: Stephen Stuart <stuart () tech org>
Date: Tue, 04 Sep 2007 13:42:49 +0000


On Mon, 3 Sep 2007, Sean Donelan wrote:

Operators are probably more interested in the "fairness" part of
"congestion" than the "efficiency" part of "congestion."

TCP's idea of fairness is a bit weird. Shouldn't it be per-user, not
per-flow?

How would you define "user" in that context?

Stephen


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