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What is Congestion

Chapter 86
Encyclopedia of Internet Technologies and Applications
A temporary or permanent loss of network stability. Congestion appears in network node when the traffic offered to a given resource exceeds its output capacity, that leads to saturation of buffers and, in result, to packet drops.
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TCP and TCP-Friendly Protocols
Agnieszka Chodorek (Kielce University of Technology, Poland)
Copyright: © 2008 |Pages: 7
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59140-993-9.ch086
Abstract
One of the most popular transport protocols—Transmission Control Protocol (TCP)—has a long history. The first document describing TCP protocol in early stages was published in 1974. Since then, TCP specification was changed several times, and finally in 1981 was standardised by RFC 793 (Postel, 1981). Two years later TCP, together with Internet Protocol (IP), became the official protocol suite of the Internet. In the same year the first widely available implementation of TCP in the 4.2 BSD operating system was built.
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Chapter 91
Traffic Control
a state of the network where an excessive amount of offered traffic causes serious degradation of network performance.
Published in Chapter: Traffic Control; From: Encyclopedia of Internet Technologies and Applications
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Game Theory as a Tool in Mobile Technologies and Applications
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Chapter 88
TCP for High-Speed Networks
State of the network characterized by the demand of traffic transmission exceeding its transport capacity.
Published in Chapter: TCP for High-Speed Networks; From: Encyclopedia of Internet Technologies and Applications
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Active Queue Management
State of the network characterized by the demand of traffic transmission exceeding its transport capacity.
Published in Chapter: Active Queue Management; From: Encyclopedia of Internet Technologies and Applications
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Chapter 23
Dynamic Overlay Networks for Robust and Scalable Routing
The problem that occurs when more data needs to be sent on a link than the capacity that is available on that link. This will result in packet loss and large delays.
Published in Chapter: Dynamic Overlay Networks for Robust and Scalable Routing; From: Handbook of Research on P2P and Grid Systems for Service-Oriented Computing: Models, Methodologies and Applications
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Multipath TCP (MPTCP): Motivations, Status, and Opportunities for the Future Internet
Congestion happens when bandwidth on a link or node capacity are too much limited to transmit data traffic.
Published in Chapter: Multipath TCP (MPTCP): Motivations, Status, and Opportunities for the Future Internet; From: Handbook of Research on Redesigning the Future of Internet Architectures
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Chapter 23
Introducing “NR-Statistics”: A New Direction in “Statistics”
The data congestion of a population P (R or NR) is understood by the density ? of the population P. If density is high, we say that P is congested.
Published in Chapter: Introducing “NR-Statistics”: A New Direction in “Statistics”; From: Handbook of Research on Generalized and Hybrid Set Structures and Applications for Soft Computing
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