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Three merged contributions to GossipMesh, authored as metgrok. Each entry links to the implementation and the tests included in its PR.

• Problem: limit message flooding and excessive bandwidth use by individual peers.
• Implementation: token-bucket rate limiting, separate frequency and byte limits, bounded peer tracking, and transport integration.
• Checks included: 14 test functions covering refill and burst limits, independent peers, LRU eviction, dropped packets, and concurrent consumption.
• Review: task #149 · implementation · tests

• Problem: adjust outgoing traffic as network conditions and packet acknowledgements change.
• Implementation: a sliding-window controller with slow start, congestion avoidance, loss handling, RTT/jitter tracking, and per-peer management.
• Checks included: 16 test functions covering window saturation, ACK/loss handling, pacing, peer isolation, and concurrent sends and acknowledgements.
• Review: task #228 · implementation · tests

• Problem: prioritize control traffic while keeping lower-priority messages moving.
• Implementation: multiple priority queues, weighted scheduling, aging, message classification, and handler dispatch.
• Checks included: 17 test functions covering control-message precedence, FIFO order, aging, capacity limits, routing, and concurrent enqueue/dequeue.
• Review: task #181 · implementation · tests

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