GATE | GATE CS 2012 | Question 65

Consider an instance of TCP’s Additive Increase Multiplicative Decrease (AIMD) algorithm where the window size at the start of the slow start phase is 2 MSS and the threshold at the start of the first transmission is 8 MSS. Assume that a timeout occurs during the fifth transmission. Find the congestion window size at the end of the tenth transmission.
(A) 8 MSS
(B) 14 MSS
(C) 7 MSS
(D) 12 MSS

Answer: (C)
Explanation: See question 2 of https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/computer-networks-set-2/amp/
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