Loss-load curves
Carey L. Williamson, David R. Cheriton · 1991
Congestioncontrol is an important problem in high-speed computer networks.Networks must limit the packet load that they accept to avoid excessive packet loss and delay.Hosts must limit their transmission rates to match what the network can handle at any given time or else suffer high sender cooperation, to provide protection from misbehaving senders, and to keep offered load close to network capacity at all times.Our analytic and simulation results show that the algorithm converges, without oscillation, to a small and stable overload, and that it provides a bounded and predictable level of packet loss to cooperating senders.