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===Classification of congestion control algorithms===
{{See also|TCP congestion control}}

Among the ways to classify congestion control algorithms are:
*By type and amount of feedback received from the network: Loss; delay; single-bit or multi-bit explicit signals
*By incremental deployability: Only sender needs modification; sender and receiver need modification; only router needs modification; sender, receiver and routers need modification.
*By performance aspect: high bandwidth-delay product networks; lossy links; fairness; advantage to short flows; variable-rate links
*By fairness criterion: Max-min fairness; proportionally fair; [[controlled delay]]