RFC 6077: Open Research Issues in Internet Congestion Control

This document describes some of the open problems in Internet congestion control that are known today. This includes several new challenges that are becoming…

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Outgoing relationships (49 related RFCs)

Informative reference — RFC 791: Internet Protocol
Informative reference — RFC 793: Transmission Control Protocol
Informative reference — RFC 4301: Security Architecture for the Internet Protocol
Informative reference — RFC 3031: Multiprotocol Label Switching Architecture
Informative reference — RFC 3168: The Addition of Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN) to IP
Informative reference — RFC 2474: Definition of the Differentiated Services Field (DS Field) in the IPv4 and IPv6 Headers
Informative reference — RFC 3032: MPLS Label Stack Encoding
Informative reference — RFC 2475: An Architecture for Differentiated Services
Informative reference — RFC 4340: Datagram Congestion Control Protocol (DCCP)
Informative reference — RFC 2784: Generic Routing Encapsulation (GRE)
Informative reference — RFC 5681: TCP Congestion Control
Informative reference — RFC 2003: IP Encapsulation within IP
Informative reference — RFC 3985: Pseudo Wire Emulation Edge-to-Edge (PWE3) Architecture
Informative reference — RFC 1323: TCP Extensions for High Performance
Informative reference — RFC 2018: TCP Selective Acknowledgment Options
Informative reference — RFC 2914: Congestion Control Principles
Informative reference — RFC 2661: Layer Two Tunneling Protocol "L2TP"
Informative reference — RFC 1958: Architectural Principles of the Internet
Informative reference — RFC 5348: TCP Friendly Rate Control (TFRC): Protocol Specification
Informative reference — RFC 2988: Computing TCP's Retransmission Timer
Informative reference — RFC 2581: TCP Congestion Control
Informative reference — RFC 6040: Tunnelling of Explicit Congestion Notification
Informative reference — RFC 5405: Unicast UDP Usage Guidelines for Application Designers
Informative reference — RFC 3260: New Terminology and Clarifications for Diffserv
Informative reference — RFC 1701: Generic Routing Encapsulation (GRE)
Informative reference — RFC 3540: Robust Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN) Signaling with Nonces
Informative reference — RFC 5129: Explicit Congestion Marking in MPLS
Informative reference — RFC 4342: Profile for Datagram Congestion Control Protocol (DCCP) Congestion Control ID 3: TCP-Friendly Rate Control (TFRC)
Informative reference — RFC 3517: A Conservative Selective Acknowledgment (SACK)-based Loss Recovery Algorithm for TCP
Informative reference — RFC 2637: Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol (PPTP)
Informative reference — RFC 2775: Internet Transparency
Informative reference — RFC 4341: Profile for Datagram Congestion Control Protocol (DCCP) Congestion Control ID 2: TCP-like Congestion Control
Informative reference — RFC 5033: Specifying New Congestion Control Algorithms
Informative reference — RFC 3662: A Lower Effort Per-Domain Behavior (PDB) for Differentiated Services
Informative reference — RFC 3714: IAB Concerns Regarding Congestion Control for Voice Traffic in the Internet
Informative reference — RFC 4553: Structure-Agnostic Time Division Multiplexing (TDM) over Packet (SAToP)
Informative reference — RFC 2861: TCP Congestion Window Validation
Informative reference — RFC 4782: Quick-Start for TCP and IP
Informative reference — RFC 4948: Report from the IAB workshop on Unwanted Traffic March 9-10, 2006
Informative reference — RFC 5087: Time Division Multiplexing over IP (TDMoIP)
Informative reference — RFC 2990: Next Steps for the IP QoS Architecture
Informative reference — RFC 4614: A Roadmap for Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) Specification Documents
Informative reference — RFC 5622: Profile for Datagram Congestion Control Protocol (DCCP) Congestion ID 4: TCP-Friendly Rate Control for Small Packets (TFRC-SP)
Informative reference — RFC 3742: Limited Slow-Start for TCP with Large Congestion Windows
Informative reference — RFC 4828: TCP Friendly Rate Control (TFRC): The Small-Packet (SP) Variant
Informative reference — RFC 5086: Structure-Aware Time Division Multiplexed (TDM) Circuit Emulation Service over Packet Switched Network (CESoPSN)
Informative reference — RFC 2208: Resource ReSerVation Protocol (RSVP) -- Version 1 Applicability Statement Some Guidelines on Deployment
Informative reference — RFC 5783: Congestion Control in the RFC Series
Informative reference — RFC 5290: Comments on the Usefulness of Simple Best-Effort Traffic

Incoming relationships (5 related RFCs)

Normatively referenced by — RFC 7414: A Roadmap for Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) Specification Documents
Informatively referenced by — RFC 6928: Increasing TCP's Initial Window
Informatively referenced by — RFC 7141: Byte and Packet Congestion Notification
Informatively referenced by — RFC 9331: The Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN) Protocol for Low Latency, Low Loss, and Scalable Throughput (L4S)
Informatively referenced by — RFC 9006: TCP Usage Guidance in the Internet of Things (IoT)