Nowadays data centers have been becoming increasingly important for various web applications, huge amount of cost is invested to maintain good performance of data center. Whereas some studies indicated that TCP Incast phenomenon was widely observed in most of data centers, which results in congestion in data centers and damages the performance of data center greatly. Thus some congestion control mechanisms for data center have been proposed to solve the problems. These mechanisms are categorized and described in this paper, and the advantages and disadvantages of these mechanisms are analyzed. Subsequently, some new interesting topics which may be worthy of further study in congestion control mechanism on data center are presented.
