CS791:A Critical Look at Network Protocols

Lecture date: 09/21/99

Prof. John Byers

Scribe: Thomas Gschwendtner

 

Recap [KP91]

Recap [RJ90]


 

Today's Paper [FJ93]

Methods for congestion control

Negative consequences of drop tail routers

Key idea: randomization of which packets are dropped

Computing the average queue size

Random Marking