Chapter 8
Congestion Management in TCP Storage Networks
TCP is a key protocol for the success of the Internet. It has been an active subject of research for 50 years. But this chapter focuses only on the relevant aspect of block storage traffic, especially for two types of users: those who have Fibre Channel experience but not as much TCP/IP experience and those who have TCP/IP experience but do not have as much experience handling storage traffic.
This chapter is not a comprehensive reference to TCP. Many details are purposefully skipped or oversimplified to keep the focus on the title of this book and because in-depth content has already been written on it. Also, this chapter does not explain the details of the various TCP implementations, ...
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