[p2p-hackers] UDP file transfer protocol peer review

[Alex Pankratov]

Matthew Kaufman wrote:

> Alex Pankratov:
> 
>>PS. My experience is purely empirical. If anyone is aware of 
>>any formal research on RTT/congestion subject, I'd really 
>>like to hear about it. Thanks.
> 
> 
> Start with the papers about TCP Vegas.
> 
> Matthew
> 

Thanks, that's a good read. I seem to be missing something
though. I was reading your reply to David earlier today and
you wrote -

> First problem with this theory is that you have to interoperate with TCP,
> which *does* rely upon packet loss as an indicator.
> 
> The only real improvement to be had in this area is Explicit Congestion
> Notification, which isn't deployed widely enough to be useful.

So do I understand correctly that eventhough TCP Vegas tries to avoid
the congestion (with a secondary goal of preventing a packet loss),
it still somehow relies on the loss to control its Tx rate ?

Alex