Another experiment would be to configure the wireless Ricochet network so that multiple wireless hops separate the client and the server. This is the configuration seen by most users of the Ricochet network.
In addition, the effect of congestion on HTTP/1.1 as not been thoroughly studied. We would like to study this as well as how these effects change on wireless networks. We would most likely have to use a network simulator to accurately measure these effects.
A network simulator would also allow us to measure the performance of HTTP/1.1 on wireless networks other than Ricochet. This would allow us to test hypotheses we might have about the performance of HTTP/1.1 on networks other than Ricochet. For example have the hypothesis that the throughput of HTTP/1.1 would scale with greater network bandwidth. The average throughput of HTTP/1.1 on Ricochet that we measured was 36.9Kb/s, which approaches the maximum bandwidth of 60Kb/s of the Ricochet network. This suggests that the throughput of HTTP/1.1 would scale with greater network bandwidth.