CONGESTION AVOIDANCE AND CONTROL FOR UDP-BASED PROTOCOLS

摘要

An improved technique involves avoiding congestion in a network by monitoring round trip times of data units sent from a node of the network. Along these lines, a controller at a node of the network sends data units at some transmission rate to a target node with instructions to send a response back to the home node. Upon receiving the response, the controller measures the round-trip time as the difference in time from sending of the message to receipt of the response. Based on the round-trip time, the controller sets a new transmission rate at which to send units of data.