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 ...

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., ...

On Thursday the 14th of November 2019, M.Sc. Ilpo Järvinen will defend his doctoral thesis on Congestion Control and Active Queue Management During Flow Startup. The thesis is a part of research done ...

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 ...

A top-down exploration of networking using the 5-layer model and the TCP/IP stack. HTTP, FTP, DNS, BSD Sockets, concurrent servers, checksums, reliable transport with stop-and-wait, go-back-n, ...

Data centre networks (DCNs) form the critical backbone for modern digital infrastructure, supporting a wide range of applications from high-frequency trading to cloud computing. The performance of ...