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 ...

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 ...

Journal of Applied Probability, Vol. 44, No. 3 (Sep., 2007), pp. 618-635 (18 pages) The transmission control protocol (TCP) is a transport protocol used in the Internet. In Ott (2005), a more general ...

How to enable TCP BBR to improve network speed on Linux Your email has been sent Jack Wallen shows you how to use Google's much improved TCP Congestion Control Algorithm on Linux for significant ...

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., ...

Microsoft's coming Windows 10 and Windows Server 2016 upgrades will add some Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) improvements, company announced this week. The improvements will be available when ...