RFC 6627: Overview of Pre-Congestion Notification Encoding

The objective of Pre-Congestion Notification (PCN) is to protect the quality of service (QoS) of inelastic flows within a Diffserv domain. On every link in…

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Outgoing relationships (16 related RFCs)

Normative reference — RFC 793: Transmission Control Protocol
Normative reference — RFC 3168: The Addition of Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN) to IP
Normative reference — RFC 2474: Definition of the Differentiated Services Field (DS Field) in the IPv4 and IPv6 Headers
Normative reference — RFC 4774: Specifying Alternate Semantics for the Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN) Field
Informative reference — RFC 4301: Security Architecture for the Internet Protocol
Informative reference — RFC 2205: Resource ReSerVation Protocol (RSVP) -- Version 1 Functional Specification
Informative reference — RFC 2983: Differentiated Services and Tunnels
Informative reference — RFC 6040: Tunnelling of Explicit Congestion Notification
Informative reference — RFC 3260: New Terminology and Clarifications for Diffserv
Informative reference — RFC 3540: Robust Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN) Signaling with Nonces
Informative reference — RFC 5559: Pre-Congestion Notification (PCN) Architecture
Informative reference — RFC 6660: Encoding Three Pre-Congestion Notification (PCN) States in the IP Header Using a Single Diffserv Codepoint (DSCP)
Informative reference — RFC 5670: Metering and Marking Behaviour of PCN-Nodes
Informative reference — RFC 5696: Baseline Encoding and Transport of Pre-Congestion Information
Informative reference — RFC 6661: Pre-Congestion Notification (PCN) Boundary-Node Behavior for the Controlled Load (CL) Mode of Operation
Informative reference — RFC 6662: Pre-Congestion Notification (PCN) Boundary-Node Behavior for the Single Marking (SM) Mode of Operation

Incoming relationships (1 related RFC)

Informatively referenced by — RFC 6660: Encoding Three Pre-Congestion Notification (PCN) States in the IP Header Using a Single Diffserv Codepoint (DSCP)