Researchers discover major roadblock in alleviating network congestion - MIT News

MIT researchers discovered that congestion control algorithms designed to ensure multiple users sending data over a network do so fairly are actually unable to avoid situations where some users are hogging all the bandwidth.

When users want to send data over the internet faster than the network can handle, congestion can occur the same way traffic congestion snarls the morning commute into a big city. Computers and devi… [+6626 chars]

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