24 March 2008

Interesting article on TCP congestion control

Interesting article on the subject of fixing TCP's congestion control algorithm:

http://blogs.zdnet.com/Ou/?p=1078

A lot of reasonable things are presented here, at a very high level. The graphs are especially interesting too. From what I have read of SCTP, this very nice protocol also has the potential to suffer from this problem.

Interesting thought question: what do you suppose an ISP is going to do when a large number of its customers begin hammering on their network with RTP traffic?

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On the other hand, here is something that is very funny and very unreasonable:



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