Slow start is a state in the TCP congestion control algorithm that rapidly detects a connection’s maximum bandwidth. Slow start relies on several variables, events, and network transmissions to make decisions regarding state change and network conditions.<\/p>\n
Slow start uses a congestion window variable (denoted During slow start, TCP rapidly increases the Slow start is a state in the TCP congestion control algorithm that rapidly detects a connection’s maximum bandwidth. Slow start relies on several variables, events, and network transmissions to make decisions regarding state change and network conditions. Slow start uses a congestion window variable (denoted cwnd) to assess how quickly TCP can send data through […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2472,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,260],"tags":[84,461,6],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alpharithms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alpharithms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alpharithms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alpharithms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alpharithms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.alpharithms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":188,"href":"https:\/\/www.alpharithms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181\/revisions\/188"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alpharithms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alpharithms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alpharithms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alpharithms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}cwnd<\/code>) to assess how quickly TCP can send data through the network without experiencing unnecessary timeouts of loss events. The cwnd<\/code> is initially set to the maximum segment size (MSS)<\/a> which by TCP specification in RFC879<\/a> defaults to 536 octets (IP MSS – 40 octets.)<\/p>\ncwnd<\/code> size by detecting timeout events and duplicate ACKs. Simultaneously, Slow Start is adjusting another variable named ssthresh<\/code>. When the cwnd<\/code> amounts to the ssthresh<\/code> value, slow start then transitions to TCP’s congestion avoidance state.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"