Congestion Control in IP/TCP Internetworks

Nagle, J. (1984). Congestion Control in IP/TCP Internetworks.

Type

Report

Intellectual base

Grey literature

Year

1984

DOI

10.17487/rfc0896

Link

https://doi.org/10.17487/RFC896

Cited from

biology_ecology, systems_cybernetics

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Primes

• Carrying Capacity
  • Past it, the system enters a collapse zone that erodes its own substrate: request queues consume memory, timed-out clients retry and add load, threads block on contended locks, and throughput actually falls as offered load rises — congestion collapse, where sustained overload consumes the very capacity that produced it.

    This sourceDescribes congestion collapse, in which sustained overload causes throughput to fall as offered load rises, consuming the capacity that produced it.

• Overshoot and Collapse
  • in computing, an admission rate beneficial to throughput inverts past a capacity ceiling into thrashing or congestion collapse, depleting the buffer and cache reserves whose exhaustion sustains the degraded regime.

Mechanisms

• Data Network Routing Policy
  • A policy that herds too much traffic onto a single "best" path can trigger congestion collapse — throughput falling toward zero as overload begets retransmission that begets more overload.

    This sourceExplains classical congestion collapse as retransmission adding duplicate traffic until buffers fill and useful throughput degrades.

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