Adaptive TCP Congestion Control

of a congestion control algorithm are
high bandwidth utilization,
fairness
and responsiveness in
changing environment.
However, these objectives are contradicting
in particular situations since the algorithm
has to constantly probe available bandwidth,
which may affect its stability.
This paper proposes a novel congestion
control algorithm
that achieves high bandwidth utilization
providing fairness among competing connections
and, on the other hand, is sufficiently responsive to
changes of available bandwidth.
The main idea of the algorithm
is to use {\em adaptive} setting for the
additive increase/multiplicative decrease (AIMD)
congestion control scheme,
where parameters may change
dynamically, with respect to the current
network conditions.