TCP Tahoe/Reno/NewReno strange behaviors

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I came across the following document:

Mats Rosbach, "Verification of Network Simulators: The good, the bad and the ugly." Master Thesis, UNIVERSITY OF OSLO, Department of Informatics, Nov 2, 2012.

https://www.duo.uio.no/bitstream/handle/10852/34916/1/Rosbach-Master.pdf

Excerpt: "We test three TCP variants in OMNeT++: Tahoe, Reno and NewReno. We run the same five basic scenarios as in ns-2. The results of these basic scenarios are summarized in Table 4.4 and Table 4.5. We can see very clearly that these results do not correspond to the expected results. The three TCP variants all perform more or less exactly the same."

Versions used: OMNeT++ 4.2.0, INET 2.0

These claims would be well worth to investigate, as the thesis generally appears to be a solid work.

Migrated from: http://dev.omnetpp.org/bugs/view.php?id=807