This whole topic seems to be a re-discovery of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Control_theory https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Control_theory and https://en.wikipedi

This whole topic seems to be a re-discovery of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Control_theory https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Control_theory and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System_dynamics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System_dynamics with non-linearities and saturation. In the same vein, on the consumer side we talk of admission control (which is just another name for "drop incoming messages") and throttling...