Modern Telecommunication, Computer Networks and both wired and wireless communications including the Internet, are being designed for fast transmission of large amounts of data, for which Congestion Control is very important. Without proper Congestion control mechanism the congestion collapse of such networks would become highly complex. Congestion control for streamed media traffic over network is a challenge due to the sensitivity of such traffic towards. This challenge has motivated the researchers over the last decade to develop a number of congestion control protocols and mechanisms that suit the traffic and provides fair maintenance for both unicast and multicast communications. This paper gives out a brief survey of major congestion control mechanisms, categorization characteristics, elaborates the TCP-friendliness concept and then a state-of-the-art for the congestion control mechanisms designed for network. The paper points the pros and cons of the congestion control mechanism, and evaluates their characteristics.