Congestion Window

Views Updated: Dec 15, 2025

Key Facts

Abbreviation
CW
Pronunciation
/kənˈʤɛsʧən ˈwɪndoʊ/
Category
Computing
Related Field
Networking

Examples in Context

  1. The stack reacts to the timeout by resetting the congestion window back to an empty state.
  2. Analyses the present slow-start strategy, proposes a new method of slow-start strategy to resolve the problem that the congestion window grows unsmoothly.
  3. When the congestion window on the sender is growing, it effectively doubles the number of packets in flight during the time it takes to send a packet and receive the acknowledgment back.
  4. The result is that compared to the present strategy, when the new method is adapted the congestion window grows more smoothly, the package loss rate decreases, bottle-neck link usage rate increases.
  5. During the slow-start stage, the congestion window of TCPW is based on exponential growth mode, which will cause the datagram increases too fast and prompt the probability of congestion.

Other meanings of CW