TCP: reading

Congestion Control Protocols

required reading:

RFCs:

Transmission Control Protocol RFC 793 - (1981) - Postel - Section 1, 2, 3 - 3.7
Congestion control in IP/TCP internetworks RFC 896 (1984) - Nagle
Requirements for Internet Hosts - Communication Layer RFC 1122 - (1989) - Braden- Section 4.2
TCP Extensions for High Performance RFC 1323 - (1992) - Jacobson - Sections 1 - 5
Requirements for IP Version 4 Routers RFC 1812 - (1995) - Baker - Section 6
Recommendations on Queue Management and Congestion Avoidance in the Internet RFC 2309 - (1998) - Braden, et al
Congestion Control Principles RFC 2914 - (2000) - Floyd
HighSpeed TCP for Large Congestion Windows RFC 3649 (2003) - Floyd - sec 1-11
A Roadmap for Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) Specification Documents RFC 4614 - (2006) Duke et al. - sec 1-7

Papers:

optional reading:

RFCs that may be of interest:

TCP Selective Acknowledgement Options RFC 2018- (1996) - Mathis, et al
Increasing TCP's Initial Window RFC 3390 - (2002) - Allman, Floyd & Partridge
The Addition of Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN) to IP RFC 3168 - (2001) - Ramakrishnan & Floyd
TCP Congestion Control RFC 2581 - (1999) - Allman, Paxson & Stevens
Known TCP Implementation Problems RFC 2525 - (1999) - Paxson, et al
TCP Friendly Rate Control (TFRC): Protocol Specification. RFC 3448 (2003) - Handley et al

other papers that may be of interest:

Books that may be useful