RFC 2581: TCP Congestion Control

This document defines TCP's four intertwined congestion control algorithms: slow start, congestion avoidance, fast retransmit, and fast recovery. In addition,…

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Outgoing relationships (7 related RFCs)

Obsoletes, Informative reference — RFC 2001: TCP Slow Start, Congestion Avoidance, Fast Retransmit, and Fast Recovery Algorithms
Informative reference — RFC 1191: Path MTU discovery
Informative reference — RFC 2018: TCP Selective Acknowledgment Options
Informative reference — RFC 813: Window and Acknowledgement Strategy in TCP
Informative reference — RFC 2582: The NewReno Modification to TCP's Fast Recovery Algorithm
Informative reference — RFC 2525: Known TCP Implementation Problems
Informative reference — RFC 2414: Increasing TCP's Initial Window

Incoming relationships (27 related RFCs)

Updated by — RFC 3390: Increasing TCP's Initial Window
Obsoleted by, Informatively referenced by — RFC 5681: TCP Congestion Control
Normatively referenced by — RFC 3539: Authentication, Authorization and Accounting (AAA) Transport Profile
Normatively referenced by — RFC 3649: HighSpeed TCP for Large Congestion Windows
Normatively referenced by — RFC 3449: TCP Performance Implications of Network Path Asymmetry
Normatively referenced by — RFC 4898: TCP Extended Statistics MIB
Normatively referenced by — RFC 3742: Limited Slow-Start for TCP with Large Congestion Windows
Normatively referenced by — RFC 3782: The NewReno Modification to TCP's Fast Recovery Algorithm
Normatively referenced by — RFC 3366: Advice to link designers on link Automatic Repeat reQuest (ARQ)
Normatively referenced by — RFC 3481: TCP over Second (2.5G) and Third (3G) Generation Wireless Networks
Normatively referenced by — RFC 4138: Forward RTO-Recovery (F-RTO): An Algorithm for Detecting Spurious Retransmission Timeouts with TCP and the Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP)
Normatively referenced by — RFC 4653: Improving the Robustness of TCP to Non-Congestion Events
Normatively referenced by — RFC 3734: Extensible Provisioning Protocol (EPP) Transport Over TCP
Informatively referenced by — RFC 3042: Enhancing TCP's Loss Recovery Using Limited Transmit
Informatively referenced by — RFC 3819: Advice for Internet Subnetwork Designers
Informatively referenced by — RFC 4774: Specifying Alternate Semantics for the Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN) Field
Informatively referenced by — RFC 2582: The NewReno Modification to TCP's Fast Recovery Algorithm
Informatively referenced by — RFC 2775: Internet Transparency
Informatively referenced by — RFC 3124: The Congestion Manager
Informatively referenced by — RFC 3714: IAB Concerns Regarding Congestion Control for Voice Traffic in the Internet
Informatively referenced by — RFC 3148: A Framework for Defining Empirical Bulk Transfer Capacity Metrics
Informatively referenced by — RFC 2760: Ongoing TCP Research Related to Satellites
Informatively referenced by — RFC 4614: A Roadmap for Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) Specification Documents
Informatively referenced by — RFC 5562: Adding Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN) Capability to TCP's SYN/ACK Packets
Informatively referenced by — RFC 6077: Open Research Issues in Internet Congestion Control
Informatively referenced by — RFC 4996: RObust Header Compression (ROHC): A Profile for TCP/IP (ROHC-TCP)
Informatively referenced by — RFC 5734: Extensible Provisioning Protocol (EPP) Transport over TCP