Chapter 6: Congestion Control

The hand that hath made you fair hath made you good.

—William Shakespeare

• Problem: Allocating Resources
• 6.1 Issues in Resource Allocation
  • 6.1.1 Network Model
  • 6.1.2 Taxonomy
  • 6.1.3 Evaluation Criteria
• 6.2 Queuing Disciplines
  • 6.2.1 FIFO
  • 6.2.2 Fair Queuing
• 6.3 TCP Congestion Control
  • 6.3.1 Additive Increase/Multiplicative Decrease
  • 6.3.2 Slow Start
  • 6.3.3 Fast Retransmit and Fast Recovery
  • 6.3.4 TCP CUBIC
• 6.4 Advanced Congestion Control
  • 6.4.1 Active Queue Management (DECbit, RED, ECN)
  • 6.4.2 Source-Based Approaches (Vegas, BBR, DCTCP)
• 6.5 Quality of Service
  • 6.5.1 Application Requirements
  • 6.5.2 Integrated Services (RSVP)
  • 6.5.3 Differentiated Services (EF, AF)
  • 6.5.4 Equation-Based Congestion Control
• Perspective: Software-Defined Traffic Engineering