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Slow start happens during several scenarios:
- When you start a connection
- 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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