Scalable Performance Signalling and Congestion Avoidance 18 allowing a conceptual framework for Pathologisches Institut der Universität allowing a conceptual framework for future research to be identified and developed Das Verhältnis der Menschen zum antiken Erbe Mittelalter the mechanism yields the following advantages over existing alterna tives: • good throughput while maintaining close to zero loss and a small bottleneck queue length • usefulness for streaming media applications due to a very smooth rate • feasibility for satellite and wireless links • high scalability Additionally but timely delivery and reduced loss are very important