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Remembering a time when connections were down to 40 bits per second, and the resulting algorithms still in use today! Dr Richard G Clegg of Queen Mary University London has the details.
Paper mentioned by Richard: bit.ly/C_CongestionCollapse
V. Jacobson. Congestion avoidance and control. SIGCOMM Comput. Commun.
Rev. 18, 4 (August 1988), 314–329.
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Remembering a time when connections were down to 40 bits per second, and the resulting algorithms still in use today! Dr Richard G Clegg of Queen Mary University London has the details.
Paper mentioned by Richard: bit.ly/C_CongestionCollapse
V. Jacobson. Congestion avoidance and control. SIGCOMM Comput. Commun.
Rev. 18, 4 (August 1988), 314–329.
facebook.com/computerphile
twitter.com/computer_phile
This video was filmed and edited by Sean Riley.
Computer Science at the University of Nottingham: bit.ly/nottscomputer
Computerphile is a sister project to Brady Haran's Numberphile. More at bradyharan.com
