RFC 6817: Low Extra Delay Background Transport (LEDBAT)

Low Extra Delay Background Transport (LEDBAT) is an experimental delay-based congestion control algorithm that seeks to utilize the available bandwidth on an…

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Outgoing relationships (7 related RFCs)

Normative reference — RFC 2119: Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement Levels
Normative reference — RFC 3168: The Addition of Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN) to IP
Normative reference — RFC 5681: TCP Congestion Control
Normative reference — RFC 4821: Packetization Layer Path MTU Discovery
Normative reference — RFC 6298: Computing TCP's Retransmission Timer
Informative reference — RFC 5905: Network Time Protocol Version 4: Protocol and Algorithms Specification
Informative reference — RFC 6297: A Survey of Lower-than-Best-Effort Transport Protocols

Incoming relationships (10 related RFCs)

Normatively referenced by — RFC 8298: Self-Clocked Rate Adaptation for Multimedia
Informatively referenced by — RFC 7567: IETF Recommendations Regarding Active Queue Management
Informatively referenced by — RFC 8095: Services Provided by IETF Transport Protocols and Congestion Control Mechanisms
Informatively referenced by — RFC 9330: Low Latency, Low Loss, and Scalable Throughput (L4S) Internet Service: Architecture
Informatively referenced by — RFC 8698: Network-Assisted Dynamic Adaptation (NADA): A Unified Congestion Control Scheme for Real-Time Media
Informatively referenced by — RFC 7295: Report from the IAB/IRTF Workshop on Congestion Control for Interactive Real-Time Communication
Informatively referenced by — RFC 7687: Report from the Strengthening the Internet (STRINT) Workshop
Informatively referenced by — RFC 9317: Operational Considerations for Streaming Media
Informatively referenced by — RFC 8774: The Quantum Bug
Informatively referenced by — RFC 9840: rLEDBAT: Receiver-Driven Low Extra Delay Background Transport for TCP