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 ...

Under Jacobson's algorithm which sought out to balance the flow rate (throughput) of each TCP stream, the system was more or less fair to everyone who wanted to use the network so long as everyone ...

TCP flow control is a robust topic that defies precise summarization. TCP implements many flow-control algorithms, and many augmentations have been made to those algorithms over the years.

They discovered that the TCP-influenced algorithm almost always matched the ants behavior in the experiement. Harvester ants closely follow two other types of TCP algorithms as well.

[Navek] notes that this algorithm has rather harsh behavior, and that there are new algorithms that both recover faster from hitting the congestion limit and take longer to reach it.

Jack Wallen shows you how to use Google's much improved TCP Congestion Control Algorithm on Linux for significant networking speed gains.