Congestion Control Principles

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Publisher: IETF
Doc Type: Best Practice
Pages: 17
Abstract: The goal of this document is to explain the need for congestion control in the Internet, and to discuss what constitutes correct congestion control. This document specifies an Internet Best Current Practices for the Internet Community, and requests discussion and suggestions for improvements.
Publication Date: 2000-09-01
Status Note: Best Current Practice
DOI: 10.17487/RFC2914
Link: https://doi.org/10.17487/RFC2914
Author(s): Sally Floyd

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Balakrishnan H. and S. Seshan, "The Congestion Manager" , Work in Progress. EXTERNAL
Dong Lin and H.T. Kung, TCP Fast Recovery Strategies: Analysis and Improvements, IEEE Infocom, March 1998. Available from: " http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/networking/papers/infocom- tcp-final-198.pdf ". EXTERNAL
Dawkins, S., Montenegro, G., Kojo, M. and V. Magret, "End-to-end Performance Implications of Slow Links", Work in Progress. EXTERNAL
Floyd, S. and K. Fall, "Promoting the Use of End-to-End Congestion Control in the Internet", IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, August 1999. URL http://www.aciri.org/floyd/end2end-paper.html EXTERNAL
S. Savage, N. Cardwell, D. Wetherall, and T. Anderson, TCP Congestion Control with a Misbehaving Receiver, ACM Computer Communications Review, October 1999. EXTERNAL
V. Jacobson, Congestion Avoidance and Control, ACM SIGCOMM '88, August 1988. EXTERNAL
Hari Balakrishnan, Venkata N. Padmanabhan, Srinivasan Seshan, Mark Stemm, and Randy H. Katz, TCP Behavior of a Busy Internet Server: Analysis and Improvements, IEEE Infocom, March 1998. Available from: " http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~hari/papers/infocom98.ps.gz ". EXTERNAL
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