A transport protocol’s view of Starlink

By 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.

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.]