BIC TCP

BIC TCP (Binary Increase Congestion control) is one of the congestion control algorithms that can be used for TCP. BIC is optimized for high speed networks with high latency: so-called "long fat networks".

BIC has a unique congestion window (cwnd) algorithm. This algorithm tries to find the maximum where to keep the window at for a long period of time, by using a binary search algorithm.

BIC TCP is implemented and used by default in Linux kernels 2.6.8 and above. The default implementation was again changed to CUBIC TCP in the 2.6.19 version.

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