The majority of Internet traffic relies on the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) devised in the early 1970s to provide a reliable data transfer across the ARPANET. Today's users download large multimedia files from remote servers using TCP. If these TCP sessions share the same bottleneck, they are expected to receive the same share of bandwidth, thus achieving the same transfer rate. Unfortunately, this is not the case when the round trip delay RTT is very different among sessions. This may have negative practical implications in downloads of delay-sensitive (though non-real-time) information from servers. For instance, suppose in a popular internet cafe in New York City several users are simultaneously downloading multimedia files from various servers.
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