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IETF Working Group: TCP Implementation (tcpimpl)

http://www.ietf.org/html.charters/tcpimpl-charter.html

IETF Transport Area Working Group (tsvwg)

http://www.ietf.org/html.charters/tsvwg-charter.html

The IETF Endpoint Congestion Management (ecm) Working Groups

http://www.ietf.org/html.charters/ecm-charter.html

"Congestion Control Principles" by Sally Floyd (in draft form at the time of this writing)

http://www.ietf.org/html.charters/ecm-charter.html

Papers by Sally Floyd and pointers to related information

http://www.aciri.org/floyd/

"The Causes of Network Delay" at The Digital Tools Group

http://www.dtool.com/delay.html

"Congestion Control Schemes for TCP/IP Networks" by Darius Buntinas

http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/~jain/cis788-95/tcpip_cong/

LBNL's Network Research Group (members of this group did much of the work on TCP congestion control mechanisms)

http://ee.lbl.gov/

"A Taxonomy for Congestion Control Algorithms in Packet Switching Networks" by Cui-Qing Yang and Alapati V. S. Reddy

http://www.comsoc.org/pubs/surveys/yang/yang-orig.html

Comparison of ATM and TCP Congestion Control

http://www.halcyon.com/ast/tcpatmcc.htm

"Explicit Rate Flow Control, A 100 Fold Improvement Over TCP" by Lawrence G. Roberts

http://www.ziplink.net/%7Elroberts/Explicit-Rate/Explicit-Rate-Flow-Control.html

Links to various papers about congestion

http://www.cs.ubc.ca/spider/mjmccut/internet.html

Congestion-related documents at University of Massachusetts

http://www-net.cs.umass.edu/papers/papers.html

Packeteer research and articles related to congestion and TCP rate control

http://www.packeteer.com/technology/research.cfm

"Rate Control to Enhance Network Service Quality" by Eric Siegel, Net

http://www.netreference.com/Public/WhitePapers/RateCon.html

TCP papers links list (satellite, congestion, performance, acknowledgements, transactions, wireless)

http://tcpsat.lerc.nasa.gov/tcpsat/papers.html

Frank Kelly's links to congestion and rate control papers

http://www.statslab.cam.ac.uk/~frank/pf/

Hoov's Musings at Acuitive, Inc., on CoS (Class of Service) and TCP Rate Control

http://www.acuitive.com/musings/hmv1-3.htm

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