A bug in TCP/Sack1 that leads to long finish time of short T

#10 A bug in TCP/Sack1 that leads to long finish time of short T

Status: open

Owner: nobody

Labels: ns-2 (14)

Priority: 5

Updated: 2006-09-21

Created: 2006-09-21

Private: No

TCP/Sack1 does not check packet to be retransmitted
when there is no new data packet to send.

This bug may leads to misunderstanding
(under-estimation) on the performance of TCP with
finite flows.

And the patch is at