But without this fundamental fix in TCP congestion control, ISP have no choice but to specifically target P2P applications since those are undeniably the applications that hog the network.

Last time, we discussed how TCP combines a flow control parameter (Advertised Window) and a congestion control parameter (Congestion Window) to determine how many bytes the sending device can ...

The dynamics of TCP congestion control algorithms are such that every session gets roughly equal bandwidth. That's fair for applications that behave the same way, but not so much when you compare ...

Typically, TCP congestion-control algorithms look at two main factors: whether individual data packets arrive at their intended destination and, if they do, how long it takes for acknowledgments ...

TCP's primary mechanism for signaling congestion causes application performance degradation in many ways, and was never optimized for high-bandwidth WANs or interactive applications over the WAN.

A top-down exploration of networking using the 5-layer model and the TCP/IP stack. HTTP, FTP, DNS, BSD Sockets, concurrent servers, checksums, reliable transport with stop-and-wait, go-back-n, ...

For example, after Google in March started using a congestion control algorithm of its own design with YouTube, it saw an speed increase of 4% worldwide — and a 14% gain in some countries ...

Datacenter applications like cloud storage need high bandwidth (40Gbps or more) to meet rising customer demand. Traditional TCP/IP (Transmission Control ...

A top-down exploration of networking using the 5-layer model and the TCP/IP stack. HTTP, FTP, DNS, BSD Sockets, concurrent servers, checksums, reliable transport with stop-and-wait, go-back-n, ...