It’s hard to imagine now, but in the mid-1980s, the Internet came close to collapsing due to the number of users congesting its networks. Computers would request packets as quickly as they could, and ...

Last time, we discussed how TCP combines a flow control parameter (Advertised Window) and a congestion control parameter (Congestion Window) to determine how many bytes the sending device can transmit ...

TCP/IP, being open, flexible, and built by consensus by individual, inspired engineers, just got on with being useful. That ...

The "More Accurate Explicit Congestion Notification" (AccECN) mechanism is defined by this RFC draft. The Linux kernel has been gaining support for AccECN with TCP over the last few releases; the 7.0 ...

TCP sometimes gets a bad rap because of the way its congestion-control algorithm hunts for bandwidth haphazardly and backs off conservatively at any sign of congestion. A properly tuned TCP ...

Currently, various messages are flowing into data centers, and communication congestion is becoming an issue in GPU workloads. Amidst this, a communication protocol called Homa, which replaces TCP, is ...

Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) is a standard protocol on the internet that ensures the reliable transmission of data between devices on a network. It defines how to establish and maintain a ...