Congestion avoidance and control
The work
| Title | Congestion avoidance and control |
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| Authors | Van Jacobson; Michael J. Karels |
| Type | conference paper |
| Year | 1988 |
| Citekey | jacobson1988congestion |
Where it appeared
| Published in | Symposium proceedings on Communications architectures and protocols |
|---|---|
| Publisher | Association for Computing Machinery |
| Pages | 314--329 |
Identifiers
| DOI | 10.1145/52324.52356 |
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| OpenAlex | W4231918747 |
Access
| Landing page | https://doi.org/10.1145/52324.52356 |
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| Free full text | https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/52324.52356 |
Abstract
In October of '86, the Internet had the first of what became a series of 'congestion collapses'. During this period, the data throughput from LBL to UC Berkeley (sites separated by 400 yards and three IMP hops) dropped from 32 Kbps to 40 bps. Mike Karels1 and I were fascinated by this sudden factor-of-thousand drop in bandwidth and embarked on an investigation of why things had gotten so bad. We wondered, in particular, if the 4.3BSD (Berkeley UNIX) TCP was mis-behaving or if it could be tuned to work better under abysmal network conditions. The answer to both of these questions was "yes".
Copy held
| Kind | PDF, 220.0 kB |
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| Retrieved | 2026-08-09 |
| Held | local, for personal reference |
| Where it came from | https://ee.lbl.gov/papers/congavoid.pdf |
Where this came from
| How it got here | the agent went looking · found via openalex |
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| First seen | 2026-08-05 |
| Record | reviewed by a person |
| Approved | 2026-08-09 |
Cite it as
@inproceedings{jacobson1988congestion,
title = {Congestion avoidance and control},
author = {Van Jacobson and Michael J. Karels},
year = {1988},
booktitle = {Symposium proceedings on Communications architectures and protocols},
pages = {314--329},
publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
doi = {10.1145/52324.52356},
url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/52324.52356},
}
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