Question

Discuss the silly window syndrome which cause degradation of tcp performance. What is the proposed solution? Explain

Answer 1

Silly Window Syndrome (SWS) is a problem that can arise in poor implementations of the transmission control protocol (TCP) when the receiver is only able to accept a few bytes at a time or when the sender transmits data in small segments repeatedly. The resulting number of small packets, or tinygrams, on the network can lead to a significant reduction in network performance and can indicate an overloaded server or a sending application that is limiting throughput.