[nsteel]

Did you read the linked paper which talks a lot about TCP pacing?

https://sammy.brucespang.com/sammy.pdf

[sambazi]

i did not read that paper with a focus on adaptive bitrate selection for video streaming services that came out 8 years after the pacing implementation hit the kernel. thx thou

[nsteel]

It uses that implementation, so yes, it came out afterwards. Section 2 and 3 might help.