Bob Briscoe (Chief researcher at the BT Network Research Centre) is on a mission to tackle one of the biggest problems facing the Internet. He wants the world to know that TCP (Transmission Control ...

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 ...

In December, we wrote about researcher Bob Briscoe's problems with TCP's fairness in handling different protocols. Specifically, unattended peer-to-peer bulk data transfer applications (e.g., ...

One of the major requirements of any network is high speed and reliable communication. TCP itself provides such high speed communication over the dedicated channel to perform the dedicated and ...

We previously wrote a newsletter about the TCP window size (see link below). The responses we received to that newsletter convinced us that we should occasionally devote future newsletters to ...

TCP (Transmission Control Protocol) is a reliable transmission control protocol. One of primary elements of TCP is to transmit information in a secured way over a system. To this end, TCP utilizes a ...

We all know that broadband providers have a tendency to blame P2P traffic for many woes and a lot of time this goes hand in hand with comments about illegal traffic in the form of pirated software and ...