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NPTEL Computer Networks Course Overview by Vidhyakshaya Kannan is a document available to read on EtoBox.
The document discusses bandwidth delay product and its implications for transport protocol design. It explains that the bandwidth delay product is the maximum number of segments that can be in transit within the network at any given time. This metric can be used to determine the optimal window size for flow control protocols. It also discusses buffer management at the sender and receiver sides and how congestion control algorithms like AIMD can provide fairness among flows while achieving high utilization.
- Author
- Vidhyakshaya Kannan
- Language
- EN