It’s hard to imagine now, but in the mid-1980s, the Internet came close to collapsing due to the number of users congesting ...

He wants the world to know that TCP (Transmission Control Protocol) congestion control is fundamentally ... worked by causing a computer to cut the flow rate of its TCP stream in half as soon ...

It turns out that Briscoe has even less love for TCP's congestion control than he let on in the ... you have to put fairness in terms of flow rates, otherwise your work is 'obviously' irrelevant.

TCP congestion control has two main phases for increasing sending rate. Slow Start is responsible for starting up a flow by seeking the sending rate the flow should use. Congestion Avoidance then ...