Q. 45 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: