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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)