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An Analysis of the Increase and Decrease Algorithms for Congestion Avoidance in Computer Networks

Dah-Ming Chiu and Raj Jain, DEC

One-line summary: Additive increase and multiplicative decrease for congestion control are necessary and sufficient conditions for convergence to an efficient and fair state regardless of the initial network state.

Overview/Main Points

Relevance

Mathematical (and nice graphical) treatment of fairness and efficiency that yields a nice and intuitively satisfying result.

Flaws

As pointed out by the authors. Also, the graphical "proofs" are nice but not clear how some of them extend to multiple dimensions.
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