“…In a nutshell, SAC will try to aggressively soak up bandwidth if it predicts the future network state to be \idle," adjusting the level of aggressiveness as a function of the predicted idleness. Congestion control has been an active area of networking research spanning over two decades with a urry of work carried out in the late '80s and early '90s [5,6,15,18,23,24,26,29,30,33,35,37]. Gerla and Kleinrock [15] laid down much of the early groundwork and Jacobson [23] has been instrumental in inuencing the practical mechanisms that have survived until today.…”