Resolve a question in a TODO about Vegas, and add refs to other TODO.

Thanks goes to Toke Høiland-Jørgensen.
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@ -409,6 +409,7 @@ This will run each time we get a SENDME (aka sendme_process_circuit_level()):
3.2. Tor Vegas: TCP Vegas with Aggressive Slow Start [TOR_VEGAS]
http://intronetworks.cs.luc.edu/1/html/newtcps.html#tcp-vegas
http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~akella/CS740/F08/740-Papers/BOP94.pdf
http://www.mathcs.richmond.edu/~lbarnett/cs332/assignments/brakmo_peterson_vegas.pdf
ftp://ftp.cs.princeton.edu/techreports/2000/628.pdf
TCP Vegas control algorithm makes use of two RTT measurements:
@ -437,7 +438,11 @@ queue_use estimate.
TODO: This simplification might not hold for some versions of BWE
and BDP estimation. See also the [TOR_WESTWOOD] section's TODO
and paper citations for both TCP Westwood and TCP Vegas.
and paper citations for both TCP Westwood and TCP Vegas. In
particular, see Section 3.5.2 of:
http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~akella/CS740/F08/740-Papers/BOP94.pdf
or Section 3.2 of:
http://www.mathcs.richmond.edu/~lbarnett/cs332/assignments/brakmo_peterson_vegas.pdf
3.2.1. Tor Vegas Slow Start
@ -480,9 +485,11 @@ double or triple this), then the congestion window is decreased.
elif queue_use > vegas_beta:
cwnd = cwnd - circwindow_inc/cwnd # linear backoff
TODO: Why not reduce the window by the number of packets that
queue_use is over or under the target value by, rather than
just 1 cell per cwnd? Need to ask some TCP folks, or experiment.
Notice that we only decrease the window size by a single packet per
congestion window, rather than by the full delta between current
queue_use and the target value. This is done because if more than one
connection jumps to use the available bandwidth at once, excess
congestion will result.
3.2.3. Tor Vegas: Complete SENDME Update Algorithm