congestion-control

Why must endpoints manage conversions between bytes sent and received TSNs sent and received in SCTP congestion control?

As stated in RFC 3286: "...endpoints must manage the conversion between bytes sent and received and TSNs sent and received, since TSN is per chunk rather than per byte". How does this affect the congestion control algortihm? ...

Is there an algorithm for fingerprinting the TCP congestion control algorithm used in a captured session?

I would like a program for determining the TCP congestion control algorithm used in a captured TCP session. The referenced Wikipedia article states: TCP New Reno is the most commonly implemented algorithm, SACK support is very common and is an extension to Reno/New Reno. Most others are competing proposals which still need ...

What does LAN/traffic congestion mean?

While talking about UDP I saw/heard congestion come up a few times. What does that mean? ...