RFC 9438: CUBIC for Fast and Long-Distance Networks

CUBIC is a standard TCP congestion control algorithm that uses a cubic function instead of a linear congestion window increase function to improve scalability…

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Outgoing relationships (27 related RFCs)

Updates, Normative reference — RFC 5681: TCP Congestion Control
Obsoletes, Informative reference — RFC 8312: CUBIC for Fast Long-Distance Networks
Normative reference — RFC 2119: Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement Levels
Normative reference — RFC 8174: Ambiguity of Uppercase vs Lowercase in RFC 2119 Key Words
Normative reference — RFC 3168: The Addition of Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN) to IP
Normative reference — RFC 2914: Congestion Control Principles
Normative reference — RFC 5348: TCP Friendly Rate Control (TFRC): Protocol Specification
Normative reference — RFC 6298: Computing TCP's Retransmission Timer
Normative reference — RFC 2883: An Extension to the Selective Acknowledgement (SACK) Option for TCP
Normative reference — RFC 7567: IETF Recommendations Regarding Active Queue Management
Normative reference — RFC 9002: QUIC Loss Detection and Congestion Control
Normative reference — RFC 5033: Specifying New Congestion Control Algorithms
Normative reference — RFC 6582: The NewReno Modification to TCP's Fast Recovery Algorithm
Normative reference — RFC 6675: A Conservative Loss Recovery Algorithm Based on Selective Acknowledgment (SACK) for TCP
Normative reference — RFC 4015: The Eifel Response Algorithm for TCP
Normative reference — RFC 5682: Forward RTO-Recovery (F-RTO): An Algorithm for Detecting Spurious Retransmission Timeouts with TCP
Normative reference — RFC 8985: The RACK-TLP Loss Detection Algorithm for TCP
Normative reference — RFC 9406: HyStart++: Modified Slow Start for TCP
Informative reference — RFC 9000: QUIC: A UDP-Based Multiplexed and Secure Transport
Informative reference — RFC 3522: The Eifel Detection Algorithm for TCP
Informative reference — RFC 3649: HighSpeed TCP for Large Congestion Windows
Informative reference — RFC 9260: Stream Control Transmission Protocol
Informative reference — RFC 3708: Using TCP Duplicate Selective Acknowledgement (DSACKs) and Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) Duplicate Transmission Sequence Numbers (TSNs) to Detect Spurious Retransmissions
Informative reference — RFC 7661: Updating TCP to Support Rate-Limited Traffic
Informative reference — RFC 3742: Limited Slow-Start for TCP with Large Congestion Windows
Informative reference — RFC 8511: TCP Alternative Backoff with ECN (ABE)
Informative reference — RFC 6937: Proportional Rate Reduction for TCP

Incoming relationships (6 related RFCs)

Normatively referenced by — RFC 9937: Proportional Rate Reduction (PRR)
Informatively referenced by — RFC 9956: A Non-Queue-Building Per-Hop Behavior (NQB PHB) for Differentiated Services
Informatively referenced by — RFC 9957: The DOCSIS Queue Protection Algorithm to Preserve Low Latency
Informatively referenced by — RFC 9768: More Accurate Explicit Congestion Notification (AccECN) Feedback in TCP
Informatively referenced by — RFC 9840: rLEDBAT: Receiver-Driven Low Extra Delay Background Transport for TCP
Informatively referenced by — RFC 9959: Careful Resume: Convergence of Congestion Control from Retained State