Computer Science · Computer Networks
A topic within Computer Networks, itself one of 11 topics in that field and part of Computer Science.
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BBR: Congestion-Based Congestion Control
Neal Cardwell et al. · 2016
Argues loss-based congestion control misreads buffering as available capacity on modern networks, and models bottleneck bandwidth and round-trip time…
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Congestion Avoidance and Control
Van Jacobson · 1988
Diagnoses network congestion collapse as a missing feedback loop and adds slow start and additive-increase multiplicative-decrease so senders back…
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Neal Cardwell et al.
Argues loss-based congestion control misreads buffering as available capacity on modern networks, and models bottleneck bandwidth and round-trip time directly instead of waiting for a dropped packet.
link checked 17 Sept 2026Van Jacobson
Diagnoses network congestion collapse as a missing feedback loop and adds slow start and additive-increase multiplicative-decrease so senders back off in response to loss.
Assumes how TCP works at the level of acknowledgements and windows; it diagnoses a network that was collapsing
link checked 17 Sept 2026Sally Floyd & Van Jacobson
Argues routers should drop packets probabilistically before their queues fill, so senders back off before congestion actually occurs rather than after.
link checked 17 Sept 2026Lawrence S. Brakmo, Sean W. O'Malley & Larry L. Peterson
Argues congestion should be inferred from a rising round-trip time rather than waiting for packet loss, letting senders react before the network actually drops anything.
link checked 17 Sept 2026