CSE 316 · Session 8 · try it yourself
Past the knee — where extra speed becomes extra fuel
One router, one capacity. You set how much the applications want to send. The network decides what they get.
When a packet is dropped
Congestion control
The two curves every engineer memorises
The rule
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Past the knee the timeouts fire, and most of what the router forwards is a copy of something it has already carried.