Computer-designed algorithms for controlling network congestion yield transmission rates two to three times as high as those designed by humans. TCP, the transmission control protocol, is one of the ...

Bob Briscoe (Chief researcher at the BT Network Research Centre) is on a mission to tackle one of the biggest problems facing the Internet. He wants the world to know that TCP (Transmission Control ...

Journal of Applied Probability, Vol. 44, No. 3 (Sep., 2007), pp. 618-635 (18 pages) The transmission control protocol (TCP) is a transport protocol used in the Internet. In Ott (2005), a more general ...

TCP friendliness of advanced TCP in high speed network simulated by ns-2: Presentation slides, demo slides, and final report (PDF files). With usage of high speed network in the world, current TCP ...

In December, we wrote about researcher Bob Briscoe's problems with TCP's fairness in handling different protocols. Specifically, unattended peer-to-peer bulk data transfer applications (e.g., ...

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Without the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP), the web would cease to function properly. Acting much like a crossing guard, the TCP regulates internet traffic to ensure that online congestion is ...

CAMBRIDGE, Mass- TCP, the transmission control protocol, is one of the core protocols governing the Internet: If counted as a computer program, it's the most widely used program in the world. One of ...