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From: karn@FLASH.BELLCORE.COM (Phil R. Karn)
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Subject: Re: tcp smooth rtt function
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Date: Fri, 1-May-87 17:06:48 EDT
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My approach to the small-SRTT problem is to let it do what it wants, but
bound the timer to the minimum non-zero value. I.e., if the clock ticks at a
1 Hz rate,

	rto = min(beta*srtt,1);	/* rto is retransmission time-out */


Phil