A top-down exploration of networking using the 5-layer model and the TCP/IP stack. HTTP, FTP, DNS, BSD Sockets, concurrent servers, checksums, reliable transport with stop-and-wait, go-back-n, ...

Bob Briscoe (Chief researcher at the BT Network Research Centre ... Jacobson's TCP stack patch worked by causing a computer to cut the flow rate of its TCP stream in half as soon as it detects ...

Computer-designed algorithms for controlling network congestion yield transmission rates two to three times as high as those designed by humans. TCP, the transmission control protocol, is one of ...