Causes/costs of congestion: scenario 2

• always: (goodput)

• “perfect” retransmission only when loss:

• retransmission of delayed (not lost) packet makes larger (than perfect case) for same

“costs” of congestion:

• more work (retrans) for given “goodput”

• unneeded retransmissions: link carries multiple copies of pkt

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