[e2e] TCP un-friendly congestion control

[Trinh Anh Tuan]

Hi,

> I might be bold enough to claim that I do understand some of the control 
> theory behind Steven Low's work. Those interested in wanting to 
> understand some control theory relating to networks should read Glenn 
> Vinnicombe's clean and concise result on stability of TCP like flow 
> controls:
> http://www-control.eng.cam.ac.uk/gv/internet/TR398.pdf
> Beginners to control theory should get a book on undergraduate control 
> and then read the Nyquist stability reference in the above paper. 

I would suggest Prof. S. Keshav's pioneering work: "A Control-theoretic
Approach to Flow Control" (ACM SIGCOMM 1991). Up to my best knowledge,
this original paper (as original as Jain-Chiu's contribution on AIMD
analysis to the developement of TCP, in my opinion ) was among the first
papers introducing control-theoretic approach to protocol/network
performance. 

my two cents,

Tuan