RFC 6928: Increasing TCP's Initial Window

This document proposes an experiment to increase the permitted TCP initial window (IW) from between 2 and 4 segments, as specified in RFC 3390, to 10 segments…

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Outgoing relationships (13 related RFCs)

Normative reference — RFC 2119: Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement Levels
Normative reference — RFC 2616: Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.1
Normative reference — RFC 5681: TCP Congestion Control
Normative reference — RFC 2018: TCP Selective Acknowledgment Options
Normative reference — RFC 6298: Computing TCP's Retransmission Timer
Normative reference — RFC 3390: Increasing TCP's Initial Window
Normative reference — RFC 5827: Early Retransmit for TCP and Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP)
Informative reference — RFC 2309: Recommendations on Queue Management and Congestion Avoidance in the Internet
Informative reference — RFC 3042: Enhancing TCP's Loss Recovery Using Limited Transmit
Informative reference — RFC 2414: Increasing TCP's Initial Window
Informative reference — RFC 4782: Quick-Start for TCP and IP
Informative reference — RFC 3150: End-to-end Performance Implications of Slow Links
Informative reference — RFC 6077: Open Research Issues in Internet Congestion Control

Incoming relationships (8 related RFCs)

Normatively referenced by — RFC 7414: A Roadmap for Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) Specification Documents
Normatively referenced by — RFC 9006: TCP Usage Guidance in the Internet of Things (IoT)
Informatively referenced by — RFC 9040: TCP Control Block Interdependence
Informatively referenced by — RFC 8803: 0-RTT TCP Convert Protocol
Informatively referenced by — RFC 7806: On Queuing, Marking, and Dropping
Informatively referenced by — RFC 8337: Model-Based Metrics for Bulk Transport Capacity
Informatively referenced by — RFC 7295: Report from the IAB/IRTF Workshop on Congestion Control for Interactive Real-Time Communication
Informatively referenced by — RFC 9959: Careful Resume: Convergence of Congestion Control from Retained State