FAST Kernel: Background Theory and Experimental Results (Extended Abstract)
Chengzhi Jin, David X. Wei, Steven H. Low, G. Buhrmaster, Julian Bunn, Deok-Gyu Choe, R.L.A. Cottrell, John C. Doyle, H. B. Newman, Fernando Paganini, S. Ravot, Sumit Kumar Singh · 2003
C. Jin, D. Wei, S. H. Low G. Buhrmaster, J. Bunn, D. H. Choe, R. L. A. Cottrell J. C. Doyle, H. Newman, F. Paganini, S. Ravot, S. Singh + http://netlab.caltech.edu/FAST/ January 12, 2003 A breakthrough that has allowed the Internet to expand by five orders of magnitude in size and in backbone speed in the last 15 years was the invention in 1988 by Jacobson of an end-to-end congestion control algorithm in TCP (Transmission Control Protocol) [1]. The algorithm is a distributed and asynchronous method to share network resources among competing users. TCP has been carrying more than 90% of the Internet tra#c and Jacobson's algorithm is instrumental in preventing the Internet from congestion collapse while the Web exploded in the 1990s.