Internet Programming & Protocols
CS594            Class 11   9/29/05

Topics

• TCP congestion control
• TCP Tahoe
• assignment 6 (pdf)
• lecture slides

Required reading

• text chapter 2
• text Appendix A
• Jacobson Congestion Avoidance and Control 1988

Related information

• Jain A binary feedback scheme for congestion avoidance 1988
• Jain Analysis of the Increase/Decrease Algorithms for Congestion Avoidance in Computer Networks '89
• RFC 2001 TCP Slow Start, Congestion Avoidance, Fast Retransmit, and Fast Recovery Algorithms
• RFC 2581 TCP congestion control
• TCP roots early history
• TCP timeline BSD evolution
• sizing router buffers
• Stevens' TCP/IP Illustrated vol 1