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S. Brakmo" 106 .%A "L. L. Peterson" 107 .%T "TCP Vegas: end to end congestion avoidance on a global internet" 108 .%J "IEEE J. Sel. Areas Commun." 109 .%D "October 1995" 110 .%V "13" 111 .%N "8" 112 .%P "1465-1480" 113 .Re 114 .Sh ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 115 Development and testing of this software were made possible in part by grants 116 from the FreeBSD Foundation and Cisco University Research Program Fund at 117 Community Foundation Silicon Valley. 118 .Sh HISTORY 119 The 120 .Nm 121 congestion control module first appeared in 122 .Fx 9.0 . 123 .Pp 124 The module was first released in 2010 by David Hayes whilst working on the 125 NewTCP research project at Swinburne University of Technology's Centre for 126 Advanced Internet Architectures, Melbourne, Australia. 127 More details are available at: 128 .Pp 129 http://caia.swin.edu.au/urp/newtcp/ 130 .Sh AUTHORS 131 .An -nosplit 132 The 133 .Nm 134 congestion control module and this manual page were written by 135 .An David Hayes Aq Mt david.hayes@ieee.org . 136