Topics to Look For¶
- Flow control
- Congestion control
- Slow start (somewhat ironically named, as it uses exponential growth)
- Additive increase / multiplicative decrease
Reading¶
- High Performance Browser Networking: Building Blocks of TCP — Congestion Avoidance and Control (covering subsections Flow Control, Slow-Start, and Congestion Avoidance)
- Peterson & Davie, 6th ed: 6.3.0-6.3.2 - TCP Congestion Control