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Congestion Control Techniques

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In past few years, the congestion and its control has been an area of interest where lots of developments are there, due to three reasons: The worldwide spread of internet has make it unmanageable. The transmission technology is  developing exponentially. As inventions in optical field  has made the hypothetical bitrates like Gbps and Tbps manageable in real life. In recent years, as the data communication field, the telecommunication field has grownup very much, and each service provider tries to give best facilities to its clients in terms of voice quality, connectivity, and lesser number of drop and blocked calls. What is Congestion? Old definition of congestion says that: Ø   “A network is said to be congested if network is under high load” Now assume a case where short term packet arrival rate increases the service rate, thus three things can happen Ø   Queuing delay of packets increases Ø   There may be packet loss Ø   Due to congestio