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Figure 3.37: Capacity share of GridFTP and TCP Reno, 100, 150, and 200 ms RTT emulated.
of a single TCP Reno flow reduces to 43%. When a high-speed data transfer protocol flow
is started, both flows are reduced to 23% utilization after 10 s. With the longer RTT, both
background traffic flows and high-speed data transfer flow are not efficient enough to utilize
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