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Read the research literature to learn what is meant by TCP friendly. Also read the Sally Floyd interview at the end of this chapter. Write a description of TCP friendliness.

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This solution deals with the meaning of TCP friendliness and also discusses this in the context of the article by Sally Floyd.

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TCP-friendliness means that packet sources in the Internet are required to reach a long-run time-average send rate that is not larger than TCP would attain. For dealing with congestion control, the algorithm followed by TCP is Congestion Avoidance (Psc.edu, 1997). The concept behind congestion avoidance algorithm is to detect for available network bandwidth by slowly escalating a congestion window. This congestion window shows how much data is outstanding in the network. When it detects the presence of congestion, which is in turn indicated by the loss ...

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