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iCON2 : Internet Congestion Control, in Retrospect.
Aditya Akella, Richard Karp, Christos Papadimitriou, Srini Seshan, Scott Shenker and Ion Stoica.


Over a decade ago, the Internet suffered a series of congestion collapses leading to the development of TCP's congestion control algorithms. Since then, there has been wide-spread belief that the congestion control algorithms have been a major reason behind the stability and effecient operation of the Internet. In this work, we revisit this basic conventional wisdom from two angles each corresponding to one of the two components of this work. Each of the two components is described hereunder.
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