This paper introduces and analyzes a class of nonlinear congestion control algorithms called binomial algorithms, motivated in part by the needs of streaming audio and video applications for which a drastic reduction in transmission rate upon each congestion indication (or loss) is problematic. Binomial algorithms generalize TCP-style additive-increase by increasing inversely proportional to a ...

Last lecture, we looked at the phenonmenon of congestion collapse, i.e., what happens when you pick a very large window size in the sliding window protocol. The problem of congestion collapse on the Internet was first documented by John Nagle in 1984 [2]. It was also observed by Van Jacobson in 1986 [8]. In both cases, the congestion collapse was the result of a large number of packets being pr...

This article reviews the current transmission control protocol (TCP) congestion control protocols and overviews recent advances that have brought analytical tools to this problem. We describe an optimization-based framework that provides an interpretation of various flow control mechanisms, in particular, the utility being optimized by the protocol’s equilibrium structure. We also look at the d...

In Delay Tolerant Network (DTN), the key resources such as buffer size, bandwidth, are easily got consumed and become limited for further usages, resulting into congestion in network and affecting the performance, Due to DTN’s network characteristics and ‘store-carry-forward’ transfer mechanism the standard TCP congestion control mechanism is not suitable. The congestion control in DTN widely r...

Efficient multicast congestion control (MCC) is one of the critical components required to enable the IP multicast deployment over the Internet. Previously proposed MCC schemes can be categorized in two: single-rate or multi-rate. Single-rate schemes make all recipients get data at a common rate allowed by the slowest receiver, but are relatively simple. Multi-rate schemes allow of heterogeneou...

Enabling communication between routers and end-points has long been sought after as an approach to congestion control in the Internet. However, the narrow-waist of TCP/IP has complicated the deployment of such protocols. We present Kick-Ass a mechanism that enables explicit rate congestion control protocols to be deployed within the TCP/IP stack. The key idea is to utilize packet lengths as a v...

This document describes a possible congestion control mechanism for acknowledgement (ACKs) traffic in TCP. The document specifies an end-to-end acknowledgement congestion control mechanism for TCP that uses participation from both TCP hosts: the TCP data sender and the TCP data receiver. The TCP data sender detects lost or Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN)-marked ACK packets, and tells the...

This paper describes the recent advancements in network congestion control in the Linux kernel. Specifically the paper focuses on the TCP congestion framework, and the implementation of the DCCP protocol stack. Linux has had multiple TCP congestion methods added to it and the subsequent growth of the codebase has made development difficult. As a result a congestion control framework has been in...

Optical networks have been widely implemented and they are usually used as the backbone of high-capacity telecommunication infrastructures. However, the nowadays traffic demand over these networks has increased in a way that congestion over the architecture is considerable. Due to the high costs of implementing new optical links, the routing and wavelength assignment process become an important...

Congestion remains a major challenge to telecommunications service provision both to the service providers as well as the subscribers. We attempted to determine the causes of congestion and evaluated congestion control mechanisms adopted by service providers in Nigeria using MTN Nigeria as a case study. A survey research design methodology using stratified random sampling technique was employed...