[Tmrg] (limited) measurement of file size vs congestion level

[Sally Floyd]

Lachlan -

As an additional comment, my assumption would be that users' behavior
is *heavily* affected by the level of congestion, but I don't know
that much research has been done on this.  That is, I would assume
that users would cut their Internet browsing short in times of heavy
congestion (i.e., of slow response times and long download times),
in terms of the number of TCP connections initiated.

I wouldn't have had a good guess, however, what this would mean to
the distribution of connection sizes.   It might mean different
things on different type links.

- Sally
http://www.icir.org/floyd/