A novel rate-based hop by hop congestion control algorithm

As the development of Internet continues, congestion control has become a big issue to the computer network society. Most of the congestion control schemes fall into two categories: end-to-end and hop-by-hop schemes. In this paper, we propose a novel hop-by-hop algorithm that originates from a classical traffic control algorithm. The experimental results show that our proposed algorithm can achieve short delays and quick responses to the congestion situations and cause no packet loss. It can also minimize the bandwidth requirement and achieve very high buffer usage level for nodes along the transmission path.