TCP congestion control

This week's lecture is about TCP congestion control. A smart mechanism built into each TCP connection to fight against network congestion. You can read sections 3.6 & 3.7 of Kurose's book.

This mechanism can be thought as if the network were performing a flow-control on each connection. Senders should not transmit at a pace high enough for the network to become congested. We will explain how this is achieved with no explicit notification from the network.

While this Thrusday is a holiday, it will be a regular week for us in the subject.