YouTube video flow control actually causes packet loss (and retransmission)
(Communications) There's an interesting article in the April 2011 issue of ACM SIGCOM Computer Communications Review. The study by Shane Alcock and Richard Nelson (also accessible here) looks at the way application level algorithms on YouTube's video servers interact
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