Important Readings

CUBIC: A New TCP-Friendly High-Speed TCP Variant https://www.cs.princeton.edu/courses/archive/fall16/cos561/papers/Cubic08.pdfLinks to an external site.

Book References

Kurose-Ross (Edition 6): Sections 3.1.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5.5, 3.6

Peterson Section 6.3

Optional Readings

Congestion Avoidance and Control https://ee.lbl.gov/papers/congavoid.pdfLinks to an external site.

A Protocol for Packet Network Intercommunication https://www.cs.princeton.edu/courses/archive/fall06/cos561/papers/cerf74.pdfLinks to an external site.

End-to-End Internet Packet Dynamics https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~sylvia/cs268-2019/papers//pktdynamics.pdfLinks to an external site.

Data Center TCP (DCTCP) https://people.csail.mit.edu/alizadeh/papers/dctcp-sigcomm10.pdfLinks to an external site. (Links to an external site.)

TIMELY: RTT-based Congestion Control for the Datacenter https://conferences.sigcomm.org/sigcomm/2015/pdf/papers/p537.pdfLinks to an external site.

Design, implementation and evaluation of congestion control for multipath TCP https://www.usenix.org/legacy/events/nsdi11/tech/full_papers/Wischik.pdfLinks to an external site.

Sizing Router Buffers https://web.archive.org/web/20210120232627/http://yuba.stanford.edu/techreports/TR04-HPNG-060800.pdfLinks to an external site.

Transport layer summary

During encapsulation the Application layer parses the Transport layer a message. It appends some headers to make into a segment. This then gets parsed to the Network layer to make a best effort of delivery. The purpose of the Transport layer to bridge the gap between the Network layers best effort delivery and something more reliable for the application to depend upon.

The two main protocols here are UDP and TCP. These both offer the application different payoffs. Currently TCP is the most dominant out of these and is pretty ubiquitous in the internet.