- Datacenter Traffic Control: Understanding Techniques and Trade-offs – Mohammad Noormohammadpour and Cauligi S. Raghavendra. December 2017. 34 pages. Retrieved 15 March 2018. This provides a good overview of traffic control techniques in general (of which traffic shaping is a subset).
- A Hierarchical Fair Service Curve Algorithm for Link-Sharing, Real-Time and Priority Services – Ion Stoica, Hui Zhang, T. S. Eugene Ng. 18 September 1997. 16 pages. Retrieved 15 March 2018. This is the paper in which Hierarchical Fair-Service Curve (HFSC) was original defined and explained.
- Blue: A New Class of Active Queue Management Algorithms – Wu-chang Fengy, Dilip D. Kandlurz, Debanjan Sahaz and Kang G. Shiny. April 1999. 27 pages. Retrieved 15 March 2018. A paper in which the authors describe a new queuing discipline that is purported to be an improvement over Random Early Detection (RED). The paper provides a good explanation of RED and explicit congestion notification as well.