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Low delay is an explicit requirement for applications such as cloud gaming and video conferencing. Delay-based congestion control can achieve the same throughput but significantly smaller delay than loss-based one and is thus ideal for…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-02-22 Maximilian Bachl , Joachim Fabini , Tanja Zseby

This dissertation is a study on the design and analysis of novel, optimal routing and rate control algorithms in wireless, mobile communication networks. Congestion control and routing algorithms upto now have been designed and optimized…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2012-01-20 Jung Ryu

Congestion is said to occur in the network when the resource demands exceed the capacity and packets are lost due to too much queuing in the network. During congestion, the network throughput may drop to zero and the path delay may become…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2007-05-23 R. Jain , K. Ramakrishnan

Motivated by the recent introduction and large-scale deployment of BBR congestion control algorithms, multiple studies have investigated the performance and fairness implications of this shift from loss-based to delay-based congestion…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-01-12 Kathrin Elmenhorst , Nils Aschenbruck

The conventional view of the congestion control problem in data networks is based on the principle that a flow's performance is uniquely determined by the state of its bottleneck link, regardless of the topological properties of the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-10-10 Jordi Ros-Giralt , Noah Amsel , Sruthi Yellamraju , James Ezick , Richard Lethin , Yuang Jiang , Aosong Feng , Leandros Tassiulas

Delay-based congestion control algorithms provide higher throughput and stability than traditional loss-based AIMD algorithms, but they are inherently unfair against older connections when the queuing and the propagation delay cannot be…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2015-07-28 Miguel Rodríguez-Pérez , Sergio Herrería-Alonso , Manuel Fernández-Veiga , Andrés Suárez-González , Cándido López-García

We present a simple yet effective routing strategy inspired by coverage control, which delays the onset of congestion on traffic networks, by introducing a control parameter. The routing algorithm allows a trade-off between the congestion…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2015-08-17 Timothy Barker , Chao Zhai , Mario di Bernardo

When developing a new networking algorithm, it is established practice to run a randomized experiment, or A/B test, to evaluate its performance. In an A/B test, traffic is randomly allocated between a treatment group, which uses the new…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-10-04 Bruce Spang , Veronica Hannan , Shravya Kunamalla , Te-Yuan Huang , Nick McKeown , Ramesh Johari

Internet faces the problem of congestion due to its increased use. AQM algorithm is a solution to the problem of congestion control in the Internet. There are various existing algorithms that have evolved over the past few years to solve…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2010-05-25 K. Chitra , G. Padamavathi

Learning-based congestion control (CC), including Reinforcement-Learning, promises efficient CC in a fast-changing networking landscape, where evolving communication technologies, applications and traffic workloads pose severe challenges to…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Mihai Mazilu , Luca Giacomoni , George Parisis

Recent model-based congestion control algorithms such as BBR use repeated measurements at the endpoint to build a model of the network connection and use it to achieve optimal throughput with low queuing delay. Conversely, applying this…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-02-12 Maximilian Bachl , Joachim Fabini , Tanja Zseby

Modern networks exhibit a high degree of variability in link rates. Cellular network bandwidth inherently varies with receiver motion and orientation, while class-based packet scheduling in datacenter and service provider networks induces…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-02-10 Prateesh Goyal , Mohammad Alizadeh , Thomas E. Anderson

The goal of traffic management is efficiently utilizing network resources via adapting of source sending rates and routes selection. Traditionally, this problem is formulated into a utilization maximization problem. The single-path routing…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2015-03-19 Ying Liu , Hongying Liu , Ke Xu , Meng Shen , Yifeng Zhong

In this paper, a new variant of Round Robin (RR) algorithm is proposed which is suitable for soft real time systems. RR algorithm performs optimally in timeshared systems, but it is not suitable for soft real time systems. Because it gives…

Operating Systems · Computer Science 2011-05-10 Rakesh Mohanty , H. S. Behera , Khusbu Patwari , Monisha Dash , M. Lakshmi Prasanna

The increasing urbanization process we have been witnessing in the last decades is accompanied by a significant increase in traffic congestion in cities around the world. The effect of the congestion is represented in the enormous time…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-11-01 Nimrod Serok , Shlomo Havlin , Efrat Blumenfeld Lieberthal

We present Broadcast by Balanced Saturation (BBS), a general broadcast algorithm designed to optimize communication efficiency across diverse network topologies. BBS maximizes node utilization, addressing challenges in broadcast operations…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Hongbo Lu , Junsung Hwang , Bernard Tenreiro , Nabila Jaman Tripti , Darren Hamilton , Yuefan Deng

Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite networks introduce unique congestion control (CC) challenges due to frequent handovers, rapidly changing round-trip times (RTTs), and non-congestive loss. This paper presents the first comprehensive,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Mihai Mazilu , Aiden Valentine , George Parisis

Weaknesses in several recently proposed ideas about congestion control and avoidance in high-speed netwroks are identified. Both sides of the debate concerning prior reservation of resources versus walk-in service, open-loop control versus…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2007-05-23 R. Jain

This paper introduces a traffic engineering routing algorithm that aims to accept as many routing demands as possible on the condition that a certain amount of bandwidth resource is reserved for each accepted demand. The novel idea is to…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2014-12-09 Cao Thai Phuong Thanh , Ha Hai Nam , Tran Cong Hung

We present a modular experimental testbed and lightweight visualization tool for evaluating TCP congestion control performance in wireless networks. We compare Google's latest Bottleneck Bandwidth and Round-trip time version 3 (BBRv3)…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Shyam Kumar Shrestha , Jonathan Kua , Shiva Raj Pokhrel