Google’s BBR algorithm for handling TCP traffic congestion could announce a new Era on the trasnport Control Protocol (TCP). Google announced integration with Google Cloud, a cloud hosting platform offered by Google to thousands of companies and which serves millions of websites on a daily basis.
BBR stands for “Bottleneck Bandwidth and RTT (Round-Trip Time),” and is an algorithm for optimizing how network packets travel through servers in order to avoid jamming certain routes.
If you want test this on your linux box, you can follow this guide here https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/671069/
An draft IETF proposal as been made, you check see it here https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-cheng-iccrg-delivery-rate-estimation-00