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 the ...

Data centre networks (DCNs) form the critical backbone for modern digital infrastructure, supporting a wide range of applications from high-frequency trading to cloud computing. The performance of ...

It’s hard to imagine now, but in the mid-1980s, the Internet came close to collapsing due to the number of users congesting its networks. Computers would request packets as quickly as they could, and ...