3. Transport Layer
Congestion Control — Quiz
Test your understanding of congestion control with 5 practice questions.
Practice Questions
Question 1
In TCP congestion control, what is the effect of a 'triple duplicate ACK' event?
Question 2
What happens to the congestion window (cwnd) during the 'fast recovery' phase?
Question 3
Which TCP congestion control algorithm is characterized by increasing the congestion window linearly and decreasing it exponentially?
Question 4
If a TCP sender's congestion window (cwnd) is $30$ segments and it receives an ACK for $10$ new segments, what will be the new cwnd during the congestion avoidance phase?
Question 5
What is the primary purpose of the 'slow start threshold' (ssthresh) in TCP congestion control?