Congestion Avoidance and Control

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Year: 1988  ·  Venue: ACM SIGCOMM  ·  Authors: Van Jacobson, Michael Karels

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Abstract

Written after congestion collapse nearly froze the 1986 Internet. Slow start, AIMD, RTT estimation — the congestion control canon, and arguably the paper that saved the Internet.

My Notes

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