Even just looking at the flow &amp; congestion control by it self, it&#x27;s not similar to TCP. Or at least the article didn&#x27;t go into details.
How does the decrement and increment of the rate is being done. In TCP we have the congestion window. Which is increasing and decreasing as a function of the state of the algorithm (slow start, congestion avoidance) and the occurrence of packet-loss or perceived packet-loss by the algorithm.  
In the article it&#x27;s not clear how Ants are adjusting the amount of ants out there.