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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

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