Fabian Wirth
The Hamilton Institute
NUI Maynooth
Maynooth, Co. Kildare

Internet Congestion Control

Abstract: Internet congestion control is a prime example of a system that
appears to be extremely complex but that can be regulated reasonably well by
simple decentralised algorithms, that possess little information about the
state of the system.

We will describe the functionality of the transfer control protocol (TCP) and
present a mathematical model describing the dynamics that are induced by this
protocol. Some future challenges are discussed.