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slow start

GATE CSE & IT · Transport Layer · 2004-2026

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Layered models, IP, routing, TCP, data link protocols

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2026 PYQ

Consider a new TCP connection between a sender and a receiver. The receiver advertised window is constant at 48 KB , the maximum segment size (MSS) is 2 KB , and the slow start thr...

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2026 PYQ

A TCP sender successfully establishes a connection with a TCP receiver and starts the transmission of segments. The TCP congestion control mechanism's slow-start threshold is set t...

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2024 PYQ

Consider a TCP connection operating at a point of time with the congestion window of size 12 MSS (Maximum Segment Size), when a timeout occurs due to packet loss. Assuming that all...

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2020 PYQ

Consider a TCP connection between a client and a server with the following specifications: the round trip time is 6 ms, the size of the receiver advertised window is 50 KB, slow st...

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2018 PYQ

Consider the following statements regarding the slow start phase of the $$TCP$$ congestion control algorithm. Note that $$cwnd$$ stands for the $$TCP$$ congestion window and $$MSS$...

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2014 PYQ

Let the size of congestion window of a TCP connection be 32 KB when a timeout occurs. The round trip time of the connection is 100 msec and the maximum segment size used is 2 KB. T...

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2012 PYQ

Consider an instance of TCP’s Additive Increase Multiplicative Decrease (AIMD) algorithm where the window size at the start of the slow start phase is 2 MSS and the threshold at th...

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2008 PYQ

In the slow start phase of the TCP congestion control algorithm, the size of the congestion window

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2004 PYQ

Suppose that the maximum transmit window size for a TCP connection is 12000 bytes. Each packet consists of 2000 bytes. At some point of time, the connection is slow start phase wit...

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