NETWORK COMMUNICATION

摘要

The invention relates to communication networks, in particular, methods and processes for network congestion control. The congestion control for a communication network may be designed to be compatible with a wide variety of buffer sizing regimes, particularly small buffers, for routers in the network. A network (10) contains a set of resources or routers (12). The network connects a source (14) to a destination (16). The route passing data (18) from source (14) to destination (16) passes through four resources. A return route transmits an acknowledgement (20) from the destination (16) to the source (14) and passes through three resources, two of which are common to the data route.