As the Internet becomes increasingly heterogeneous, the issue of congestion control becomes ever more important.
In order to maintain good network performance, mechanisms must be provided to prevent the network from being congested for any significant period of time. Michael Welzl describes the background and concepts of Internet congestion control, in an accessible and easily comprehensible format. Throughout the book, not just the how, but the why of complex technologies including the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) and Active Queue Management are explained. The text also gives an...
As the Internet becomes increasingly heterogeneous, the issue of congestion control becomes ever more important.
This book answers a question which came about while the author was work ing on his diploma thesis 1]: would it be better to ask for the available band width instead of probing the network (like TCP does)? The diploma thesis was concerned with long-distance musical interaction ("NetMusic"). This is a very peculiar application: only a small amount of bandwidth may be necessary, but timely delivery and reduced loss are very important. Back then, these require ments led to a thorough investigation of existing telecommunication network mechanisms, but a satisfactory answer to the question could...
This book answers a question which came about while the author was work ing on his diploma thesis 1]: would it be better to ask for the available ban...
This book answers a question which came about while the author was work- ing on his diploma thesis 1]: would it be better to ask for the available band- width instead of probing the network (like TCP does)? The diploma thesis was concerned with long-distance musical interaction ("NetMusic"). This is a very peculiar application: only a small amount of bandwidth may be necessary, but timely delivery and reduced loss are very important. Back then, these require- ments led to a thorough investigation of existing telecommunication network mechanisms, but a satisfactory answer to the question...
This book answers a question which came about while the author was work- ing on his diploma thesis 1]: would it be better to ask for the available ba...
