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   1 When you start a connection
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   1. When you experience a Timeout

In this initial phase we increase the congestion window for every packet that is ACKed.

|| packet # ACKed || Congestion Window ||
|| 1 || 2 ||
|| 2 || 3 ||
|| 3 || 4 ||
||...||...||

The results in an exponential growth

|| Number of packets sent || Congestion window size ||

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Slow start happens during several scenarios:

  1. When you start a connection
  2. When you experience a Timeout

In this initial phase we increase the congestion window for every packet that is ACKed.

packet # ACKed

Congestion Window

1

2

2

3

3

4

...

...

The results in an exponential growth

Number of packets sent

Congestion window size

Back to TransmissionControlProtocol

SlowStart (last edited 2003-12-12 20:45:29 by yakko)