# tcp congestion avoidance

I came across this question:

At the beginning of transmission t, a TCP connection in congestion avoidance mode
has a congestion window w = 60 segments.Packet loss is observed during transmission
rounds t, t+10, and t+20 by getting multiple ACKs. What is the congestion window
at the end of round t, t + 10, and t + 20?

If there's no further packet loss, when will the window of w = 60 segments be reached again?


Congestion window is halved during transmission round t, leading to w = 30. At the
beginning of transmission round t + 10, the window has increased to w = 40 but it will be
halved again during transmission round t + 10 to w = 20. Similarly, after transmission round
t + 20, the window will be w = 15. With no further packet loss, 45 transmission rounds later
at t + 65, the window will reach again the original size of w = 60.


I know that due to multiple ACKs, packet loss reduces the window size to half. So at t+10, w = 30 makes sense. However, I don't really get the rest. Why does the window size increase by 10? And at t+20, why doesn't it reduce to 10 instead of 15? If someone could explain the steps, that would be great.

• Is that all the question or there is more information regarding the data? Apr 21, 2020 at 5:59
• That is all @Noname
– x89
Apr 22, 2020 at 0:11