Fixing the Unfairness of TCP Congestion Control

Posted by CmdrTaco on Monday March 24, 2008 @02:34AM from the why-isn't-the-internet-a-democracy dept.

duncan99 writes "George Ou, Technical Director of ZDNet, has an analysis today of an engineering proposal to address congestion issues on the internet. It's an interesting read, with sections such as "The politicization of an engineering problem" and "Dismantling the dogma of flow rate fairness". Short and long term answers are suggested, along with some examples of what incentives it might take to get this to work. Whichever side of the neutrality debate you're on, this is worth consideration."

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Not all sessions experience the same congestion by thehickcoder · 2008-03-24 02:44 · Score: 5, Interesting

The author of this analysis seems to have missed the fact that each TCP session in a P2P application is communicating with a different network user and may not be experiencing the same congestion as other sessions. In most cases (those where the congestion is not on the first hop) It doesn't make sense to throttle all connections when one is effected by congestion.