Introduction

Frank Kelly
Stanford University
GSB

The miniworkshop on "Internet congestion control" will be devoted
to congestion control in large-scale networks and the nature of Internet
congestion. Explicit Congestion Notification, becoming available in the
Internet, has provided a substantial impetus to work on congestion control,
and exciting progress has been made recently towards a theoretical
understanding of TCP, both of its equilibrium, using optimization theory,
and its dynamics, using control theory. In parallel there has been important
progress on mathematical models that address the statistical relationship
between traffic, capacity, routing and realized performance.


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