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# lec11
## TCP Congestion CControl
Additive increase & Multiplicative decrease
Sender increases window size until a loss happens.
* Additively: increase by 1 every round-trip-time until a loss is detected.
* Multiplicative decrese: cut window size in half
Sender limits the transmission by changing the size of it's congestion window.
The sender detects loss with one of two methods:
* Timeout
* Triple Duplicate ACK's
## General Fairness
### TCP Fairness
Say we have two competing sessions:
* additive increase slope of 1, as throughput increases
* multiplicative decrease lowers throughput proportionally
### UDP Fairness
Certain types of applications won't be be rate limited by TCP fairness.
Streaming video for instance won't since we just want to _throw_ data across as much as possible.
This also means we have to account for loss and tolerate it when it does happen because UDP doesn't account for loss anyway.