R.18 True or False? Consider congestion control in TCP. When the timer expires a

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R.18 True or False? Consider congestion control in TCP. When the timer expires at the sender, the value of ssthresh is set to one half of its previous value.             

Text book-----Jim Kurose and Keith Ross,”Computer Networking – A Top-Down Approach”, Addison-Wesley, Seventh Edition, 2017. ISBN-13: 978-0-13-359414-0                                                                                                                                                                                                             

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Question : Consider congestion control in TCP. When the timer expires at the sender, the value of ssthresh is set to one half of its previous value ?

Sol : False. The threshold is set to one half of the current congestion window size.

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