[ih] FC vs CC Re: [e2e] Fwd: Re: Once again buffer bloat and CC. Re: A Cute Story. Or: How to talk completely at cross purposes. Re: When was Go Back N adopted by TCP

Brian E Carpenter brian.e.carpenter at gmail.com
Fri Aug 22 12:34:44 PDT 2014


On 23/08/2014 01:56, Noel Chiappa wrote:
...
> In looking for the references in that book to the congestion work, though, I
> stumbled across this one:
> 
>   D. W. Davies, "The Control of Congestion in Packet Switching Networks",
>   Proc. 2nd Symp. on Problems of Optimization of Data Comm. Systems,
>   Palo Alto, Oct. 1971
> 	
> I don't have access to that, but it would be interesting to see what it
> covers.

When working on my book, I came across the fact that Davies worked on
computer-based analysis of queueing systems as early as 1956, for the
UK Road Research Laboratory (Proc IEE 103 Pt B Suppl, 473–475).

   Brian





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