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Selective acknowledgment (SACK)-based retransmission and recovery mechanism has been implemented in most of current transmission control protocol (TCP) stacks. A new SACK-based loss recovery algorithm is defined in RFC6675 under standard track. Existing models in literatures on modeling TCP SACK, which usually use SACK-based retransmission and recovery mechanism, is no longer accurate for two reasons: 1) they ignore transmission of new packets before retransmission of the last loss; 2) they are based on the strategy that pipe is decreased by 2 upon receipt of a partial ACK, where pipe is the estimated number of outstanding packets. This paper develops a new method to derive the expected number of new packets transmitted between retransmission of the first loss and the last, proposes a model that estimates the expected number of packets transmitted during fast retransmission and recovery phase (FRR) and the corresponding expected duration based on RFC6675. The numerical results show that the proposed model can accurately estimate the expected number of packets transmitted during FRR and the corresponding expected duration based on RFC6675.