When users want to send data over the internet faster than the network can handle, congestion can occur — the same way traffic congestion snarls the morning commute into a big city. Computers and ...

The Constrained Application Protocol (CoAP) is a lightweight application layer protocol specifically developed to meet the stringent requirements of Internet of Things (IoT) devices. Its design ...

TCP sometimes gets a bad rap because of the way its congestion-control algorithm hunts for bandwidth haphazardly and backs off conservatively at any sign of congestion. A properly tuned TCP ...

Researchers discovered that congestion control algorithms designed to ensure multiple users sending data over a network do so fairly are actually unable to avoid situations where some users are ...