RFC 3449: TCP Performance Implications of Network Path Asymmetry

This document describes TCP performance problems that arise because of asymmetric effects. These problems arise in several access networks, including…

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Outgoing relationships (20 related RFCs)

Normative reference — RFC 793: Transmission Control Protocol
Normative reference — RFC 1122: Requirements for Internet Hosts - Communication Layers
Normative reference — RFC 1191: Path MTU discovery
Normative reference — RFC 2784: Generic Routing Encapsulation (GRE)
Normative reference — RFC 1144: Compressing TCP/IP Headers for Low-Speed Serial Links
Normative reference — RFC 2581: TCP Congestion Control
Normative reference — RFC 3135: Performance Enhancing Proxies Intended to Mitigate Link-Related Degradations
Informative reference — RFC 3168: The Addition of Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN) to IP
Informative reference — RFC 2406: IP Encapsulating Security Payload (ESP)
Informative reference — RFC 2402: IP Authentication Header
Informative reference — RFC 1323: TCP Extensions for High Performance
Informative reference — RFC 2018: TCP Selective Acknowledgment Options
Informative reference — RFC 3095: RObust Header Compression (ROHC): Framework and four profiles: RTP, UDP, ESP, and uncompressed
Informative reference — RFC 2988: Computing TCP's Retransmission Timer
Informative reference — RFC 2507: IP Header Compression
Informative reference — RFC 2525: Known TCP Implementation Problems
Informative reference — RFC 2686: The Multi-Class Extension to Multi-Link PPP
Informative reference — RFC 2760: Ongoing TCP Research Related to Satellites
Informative reference — RFC 3150: End-to-end Performance Implications of Slow Links
Informative reference — RFC 3077: A Link-Layer Tunneling Mechanism for Unidirectional Links

Incoming relationships (9 related RFCs)

Normatively referenced by — RFC 7414: A Roadmap for Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) Specification Documents
Informatively referenced by — RFC 9293: Transmission Control Protocol (TCP)
Informatively referenced by — RFC 3819: Advice for Internet Subnetwork Designers
Informatively referenced by — RFC 4614: A Roadmap for Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) Specification Documents
Informatively referenced by — RFC 5690: Adding Acknowledgement Congestion Control to TCP
Informatively referenced by — RFC 3481: TCP over Second (2.5G) and Third (3G) Generation Wireless Networks
Informatively referenced by — RFC 7560: Problem Statement and Requirements for Increased Accuracy in Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN) Feedback
Informatively referenced by — RFC 9312: Manageability of the QUIC Transport Protocol
Informatively referenced by — RFC 9768: More Accurate Explicit Congestion Notification (AccECN) Feedback in TCP