RFC 7141: Byte and Packet Congestion Notification

This document provides recommendations of best current practice for dropping or marking packets using any active queue management (AQM) algorithm, including…

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Outgoing relationships (17 related RFCs)

Updates, Normative reference — RFC 2914: Congestion Control Principles
Updates, Normative reference — RFC 2309: Recommendations on Queue Management and Congestion Avoidance in the Internet
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
Informative reference — RFC 3550: RTP: A Transport Protocol for Real-Time Applications
Informative reference — RFC 2474: Definition of the Differentiated Services Field (DS Field) in the IPv4 and IPv6 Headers
Informative reference — RFC 5681: TCP Congestion Control
Informative reference — RFC 5348: TCP Friendly Rate Control (TFRC): Protocol Specification
Informative reference — RFC 6679: Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN) for RTP over UDP
Informative reference — RFC 3714: IAB Concerns Regarding Congestion Control for Voice Traffic in the Internet
Informative reference — RFC 5670: Metering and Marking Behaviour of PCN-Nodes
Informative reference — RFC 6789: Congestion Exposure (ConEx) Concepts and Use Cases
Informative reference — RFC 5562: Adding Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN) Capability to TCP's SYN/ACK Packets
Informative reference — RFC 4828: TCP Friendly Rate Control (TFRC): The Small-Packet (SP) Variant
Informative reference — RFC 5690: Adding Acknowledgement Congestion Control to TCP
Informative reference — RFC 6077: Open Research Issues in Internet Congestion Control
Informative reference — RFC 3426: General Architectural and Policy Considerations

Incoming relationships (5 related RFCs)

Normatively referenced by — RFC 7567: IETF Recommendations Regarding Active Queue Management
Normatively referenced by — RFC 9599: Guidelines for Adding Congestion Notification to Protocols that Encapsulate IP
Informatively referenced by — RFC 7786: TCP Modifications for Congestion Exposure (ConEx)
Informatively referenced by — RFC 7806: On Queuing, Marking, and Dropping
Informatively referenced by — RFC 9768: More Accurate Explicit Congestion Notification (AccECN) Feedback in TCP