RFC 7661: Updating TCP to Support Rate-Limited Traffic

This document provides a mechanism to address issues that arise when TCP is used for traffic that exhibits periods where the sending rate is limited by the…

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Outgoing relationships (8 related RFCs)

Obsoletes, Normative reference — RFC 2861: TCP Congestion Window Validation
Normative reference — RFC 2119: Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement Levels
Normative reference — RFC 793: Transmission Control Protocol
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 6675: A Conservative Loss Recovery Algorithm Based on Selective Acknowledgment (SACK) for TCP
Informative reference — RFC 7230: Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP/1.1): Message Syntax and Routing

Incoming relationships (6 related RFCs)

Informatively referenced by — RFC 9438: CUBIC for Fast and Long-Distance Networks
Informatively referenced by — RFC 8298: Self-Clocked Rate Adaptation for Multimedia
Informatively referenced by — RFC 9040: TCP Control Block Interdependence
Informatively referenced by — RFC 8337: Model-Based Metrics for Bulk Transport Capacity
Informatively referenced by — RFC 9317: Operational Considerations for Streaming Media
Informatively referenced by — RFC 9959: Careful Resume: Convergence of Congestion Control from Retained State