The Congestion Manager
Hari Balakrishnan, Srinivasan Seshan · 2001
This document specifies an Internet standards track protocol for the Internet community, and requests discussion and suggestions for improvements. Please refer to the current edition of the "Internet Official Protocol Standards " (STD 1) for the standardization state and status of this protocol. Distribution of this memo is unlimited. Copyright Notice Copyright (C) The Internet Society (2001). All Rights Reserved. This document describes the Congestion Manager (CM), an end-system module that: (i) Enables an ensemble of multiple concurrent streams from a sender destined to the same receiver and sharing the same congestion properties to perform proper congestion avoidance and control, and (ii) Allows applications to easily adapt to network congestion.