A transport protocol’s view of Starlink

By Geoff Huston <https://blog.apnic.net/author/geoff-huston/> on 17 May 
2024

https://blog.apnic.net/2024/05/17/a-transport-protocols-view-of-starlink/

> Digital communications systems always represent a collection of design 
> tradeoffs. Maximizing one characteristic of a system may impair 
> others, and various communications services may choose to optimize 
> different performance parameters based on the intersection of these 
> design decisions with the physical characteristics of the 
> communications medium.
>
> In this article, I’ll look at how TCP, the workhorse transport 
> protocol of the Internet, interacts with the characteristics of the 
> Starlink service <https://www.starlink.com/>.
>
Nice analysis of the satellite handoff's effects on Reno, CUBIC, and 
BBR. Lots of graphs.

[Apologies if this was already discussed here. I checked the May 
archives and didn't see the link or author's name.]