{"id":7632,"date":"2013-07-25T11:02:07","date_gmt":"2013-07-25T16:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=7632"},"modified":"2013-07-25T11:03:43","modified_gmt":"2013-07-25T16:03:43","slug":"tcp-ex-machina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2013\/07\/25\/tcp-ex-machina\/","title":{"rendered":"TCP ex Machina: Computer-Generated Congestion Control"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/web.mit.edu\/remy\/\">Keith Winstein and Hari Balakrishnan<\/a> (via <a href=\"http:\/\/tech.slashdot.org\/story\/13\/07\/20\/0145244\/mit-uses-machine-learning-algorithm-to-make-tcp-twice-as-fast\">Slashdot<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/web.mit.edu\/remy\/\"><p><b>Remy<\/b> is a computer program that figures\nout how computers can best cooperate to share a network.<\/p>\n<p>Remy creates end-to-end congestion-control\nalgorithms that plug into the Transmission Control Protocol\n(TCP). These computer-generated algorithms can achieve <strong>higher\nperformance<\/strong> and <strong>greater fairness<\/strong> than the\nmost sophisticated human-designed schemes.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>An <a href=\"http:\/\/web.mit.edu\/remy\/TCPexMachina.pdf\">early version<\/a> of their paper is available, as is <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/keithw\/remy\">the code<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Keith Winstein and Hari Balakrishnan (via Slashdot): Remy is a computer program that figures out how computers can best cooperate to share a network. Remy creates end-to-end congestion-control algorithms that plug into the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP). These computer-generated algorithms can achieve higher performance and greater fairness than the most sophisticated human-designed schemes. An early [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[289,263,476,74,508],"class_list":["post-7632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-algorithm","tag-theory","tag-networking","tag-opensource","tag-tcp"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7632"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7632\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7634,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7632\/revisions\/7634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}