RFC 3042: Enhancing TCP's Loss Recovery Using Limited Transmit

This document proposes a new Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) mechanism that can be used to more effectively recover lost segments when a connection's…

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Outgoing relationships (8 related RFCs)

Informative reference — RFC 2119: Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement Levels
Informative reference — RFC 793: Transmission Control Protocol
Informative reference — RFC 2018: TCP Selective Acknowledgment Options
Informative reference — RFC 2988: Computing TCP's Retransmission Timer
Informative reference — RFC 2581: TCP Congestion Control
Informative reference — RFC 2582: The NewReno Modification to TCP's Fast Recovery Algorithm
Informative reference — RFC 2481: A Proposal to add Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN) to IP
Informative reference — RFC 2884: Performance Evaluation of Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN) in IP Networks

Incoming relationships (20 related RFCs)

Normatively referenced by — RFC 3539: Authentication, Authorization and Accounting (AAA) Transport Profile
Normatively referenced by — RFC 7414: A Roadmap for Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) Specification Documents
Normatively referenced by — RFC 3782: The NewReno Modification to TCP's Fast Recovery Algorithm
Normatively referenced by — RFC 3481: TCP over Second (2.5G) and Third (3G) Generation Wireless Networks
Normatively referenced by — RFC 4653: Improving the Robustness of TCP to Non-Congestion Events
Normatively referenced by — RFC 5827: Early Retransmit for TCP and Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP)
Normatively referenced by — RFC 9006: TCP Usage Guidance in the Internet of Things (IoT)
Informatively referenced by — RFC 5681: TCP Congestion Control
Informatively referenced by — RFC 3517: A Conservative Selective Acknowledgment (SACK)-based Loss Recovery Algorithm for TCP
Informatively referenced by — RFC 3714: IAB Concerns Regarding Congestion Control for Voice Traffic in the Internet
Informatively referenced by — RFC 6582: The NewReno Modification to TCP's Fast Recovery Algorithm
Informatively referenced by — RFC 6928: Increasing TCP's Initial Window
Informatively referenced by — RFC 3148: A Framework for Defining Empirical Bulk Transfer Capacity Metrics
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 5682: Forward RTO-Recovery (F-RTO): An Algorithm for Detecting Spurious Retransmission Timeouts with TCP
Informatively 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)
Informatively referenced by — RFC 6937: Proportional Rate Reduction for TCP
Informatively referenced by — RFC 9937: Proportional Rate Reduction (PRR)
Informatively referenced by — RFC 6559: A Reliable Transport Mechanism for PIM