Network congestion detection and resolution

A method and corresponding apparatus for detecting network congestion. The method includes capturing, using a local clock of a sender device, a send time of an outgoing packet sent from the sender device to a receiver device through a forward route, and capturing, using the local clock of the sender device, a receive time of an acknowledgment packet sent from the receiver device to the sender device through a backward route. The acknowledgment packet contains timing information, generated using a local clock of the receiver device, for determining an internal latency of the receiver device. A round trip time is computed as a difference between the send time and the receive time. The internal latency is subtracted from the round trip time to compute a total propagation time. If the total propagation time is above a threshold, the forward route and the backward route are changed.