Makes Reno CC slightly loss tolerant #445
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The key idea here is that it is unlikely that a singular loss is a good indicator of congestion. I considered using a percentage of the congestion window as the threshold, but that might be too aggressive. This PR sets the threshold to two, meaning that there have to be at least two losses in a recovery episode for there to be congestion action.
Additionally, the congestion window is increased during the recovery episode as long as the number of losses is below the threshold.
Note that the recovery episode still starts and ends as before: starting at the first loss and ending an RTT later. This means that it is possible for the window to keep increasing until threshold number of losses occur, which could be near the end of the recovery RTT. In the worst case, this causes the window to be slightly larger (Beta x MaxPacketSize) at the end of a congestion event.