This paper proposes a congestion control algorithm FACC (Forward Active Networks Congestion Control) based on Active Networks.The comparison with traditional TCP(Transport control protocol) shows that by providing congestion detection and congestion control mechanism in network nodes

FACC greatly reduces the congestion reaction delay of source endpoint and consequently increases the average throughput of each endpoint.Computer simulations are given to analyze the performance of FACC algorithm under various circumstances and compare FACC with Tahoe

Reno

NewReno and SACK TCP protocols.The result of simulation shows that FACC can obviously increase the average throughput of each endpoint with or without the cross traffic in network

resulting in little additional computation delay of the network node.