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Fixing the unfairness of TCP congestion control

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 Protocol congestion control is fundamentally broken and he has a proposal for the IETF to fix...

Tags: Algorithm, Application, Bandwidth, Network, P2P, TCP, Bob Briscoe, Van Jacobson, Jacobson, AIMD, ECN, Tcp/Ip, Networking, Peer To Peer (P2P), Internet, George Ou

Blog posts 2008-03-24

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Comcast traffic management issue before FCC

Today is the deadline for the FCC call for comments on the Comcast traffic management case brought about by a formal complaint from the Free Press and Public Knowledge.  As a former network engineer who designed networks and servers and as someone who has written extensively on these matters, I...

Tags: FCC, Bandwidth, Packet, Electronic Frontier Foundation, BitTorrent, Network, Comcast Corp., P2P, Problem, Verizon Communications Inc., Broadband, DOCSIS, Network Management, BitTorrent Seeder, Networking, Cable, Broadband Internet, Telecommunications, Personal Technology, George Ou

Blog posts 2008-02-13

Saving Internet freedom - for users - from telcos

Mighty Google is worried about getting the shaft from telcos. Shouldn't you be too? Larry Downes imagines the worst Larry Downes' arguments against net neutrality are button-pushing propaganda designed to inflame, not illuminate. I expect better from a University of Chicago trained lawyer. ...

Tags: Adobe PDF, Briscoe, Broadband, Internet, Net Neutrality, Network, QoS, Robin Harris, Telecom & Utilities, Telecommunications, Telecommunications Company

Blog posts 2007-12-13