According to news reporting originating from Washington, D.C., by NewsRx journalists, a patent application by the inventors LINS, Silvia (Indaiatuba, BR); SILVA, Pedro Henrique Gomes Da (Sao Paulo, BR); SOUZA, Ricardo da Silva (Indaiatuba, BR), filed on October 9, 2020, was made available online on January 25, 2024. No assignee for this patent application has been made. Reporters obtained the following quote from the background information supplied by the inventors: “Network congestion can happen when network nodes or links are not capable of carrying all traffic generated by transmitting nodes. In the face of network congestion, a congestion control mechanism (also referred to herein as a congestion control process) may be necessary, otherwise the network may collapse and there may be packet losses as well as delays that exponentially increases. A congestion control is a process where sender node as well as relay nodes between sender and receiver control their rate of transmission to achieve an optimal or improved network-wide allocation of resources (e.g., network throughput). In mobile networks such as fourth generation (4G) and fifth generation (5G) networks, transport networks can be highly affected by network congestion since traffic is based on Internet Protocol (IP) flows. While optimizing or improving congestion control in a network, multiple objectives may be pursued to achieve a desired global optimum or improved point of operation. Examples of different objectives and tradeoffs include fairness, aggregated throughput, latency, etc.”
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