Congestion avoidance and control | RDL Research Database

Abstract

In October of '86, the Internet had the first of what became a series of 'congestion collapses'. During this period, the data throughput from LBL to UC Berkeley (sites separated by 400 yards and three IMP hops) dropped from 32 Kbps to 40 bps. Mike Karels1 and I were fascinated by this sudden factor-of-thousand drop in bandwidth and embarked on an investigation of why things had gotten so bad. We wondered, in particular, if the 4.3BSD (Berkeley UNIX) TCP was mis-behaving or if it could be tuned to work better under abysmal network conditions. The answer to both of these questions was "yes".

Keywords

UnixNetwork congestionComputer scienceThe InternetBandwidth (computing)ThroughputComputer networkOperating systemComputer securityNetwork packet

Affiliated Institutions

University of California, Berkeley US

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Year: 1988
Type: article
Pages: 314-329
Citations: 2447
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                                    Van Jacobson
                                
                            (1988). 
                            Congestion avoidance and control. 
                            
                            , 314-329.
                            https://doi.org/10.1145/52324.52356

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DOI: 10.1145/52324.52356