Answer to Question #200327 in Computer Networks for Alex

Question

Consider congestion control in TCP. When a timeout occur at a sender during slowstart, the value of assthresh is set to one of the previous ssthresh value.

True

False

Answer 1

The given statement is false, because when a timeout occur at a sender during slow start, the value of assthresh is set one half of the of the current congestion window size.

In the case of timeout, for the slow start, the congestion window set to 1 MSS. The ssthresh set is set of 8 in this case. Half of the congestion window at the time of congestion. It start increasing exponentially in the case of slow start. Until it reach the ssthres 8.