A Proposal to add Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN) to IP

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Publisher: IETF
Doc Type: Experimental
Pages: 25
Abstract: This note describes a proposed addition of ECN (Explicit Congestion Notification) to IP. This memo defines an Experimental Protocol for the Internet community.
Publication Date: 1999-01-01
Status Note: Experimental
DOI: 10.17487/RFC2481
Link: https://doi.org/10.17487/RFC2481
Author(s): Dr. K. K. Ramakrishnan
Sally Floyd
Keyword(s): ECN-IP, IP, TCP, Networks, Control, Transport

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Krishnan, H., "Analyzing Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN) benefits for TCP", Master's thesis, UCLA, 1998, URL " http://www.cs.ucla.edu/~hari/software/ecn/ ecn_report.ps.gz ". EXTERNAL
"The ECN Web Page", URL " http://www- nrg.ee.lbl.gov/floyd/ecn.html ". EXTERNAL
V. Jacobson, "Congestion Avoidance and Control", Proc. ACM SIGCOMM '88, pp. 314-329. URL " ftp://ftp.ee.lbl.gov/papers/congavoid.ps.Z ". EXTERNAL
Floyd, S., "The ECN Validation Test in the NS Simulator", URL " http://www-mash.cs.berkeley.edu/ns/ ", test tcl/test/test-all-ecn. EXTERNAL
Lin, D., and Morris, R., "Dynamics of Random Early Detection", SIGCOMM '97, September 1997. URL " http://www.inria.fr/rodeo/sigcomm97/program.html#ab078 ". EXTERNAL
K. K. Ramakrishnan and Raj Jain, "A Binary Feedback Scheme for Congestion Avoidance in Computer Networks", ACM Transactions on Computer Systems, Vol.8, No.2, pp. 158-181, May 1990. EXTERNAL
Chen, C., Krishnan, H., Leung, S., Tang, N., and Zhang, L., "Implementing ECN for TCP/IPv6", presentation to the ECN BOF at the L.A. IETF, March 1998, URL " http://www.cs.ucla.edu/~hari/ecn-ietf.ps ". EXTERNAL
S. McCanne, V. Jacobson, and M. Vetterli, "Receiver- driven Layered Multicast", SIGCOMM '96, August 1996, pp. 117-130. EXTERNAL
Floyd, S., and Jacobson, V., "Random Early Detection gateways for Congestion Avoidance", IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, V.1 N.4, August 1993, p. 397-413. URL " ftp://ftp.ee.lbl.gov/papers/early.pdf ". EXTERNAL
V. Jacobson, "Modified TCP Congestion Avoidance Algorithm", Message to end2end-interest mailing list, April 1990. URL " ftp://ftp.ee.lbl.gov/email/vanj.90apr30.txt ". EXTERNAL
Floyd, S., and Fall, K., "Router Mechanisms to Support End-to-End Congestion Control", Technical report, February 1997. URL " http://www- nrg.ee.lbl.gov/floyd/end2end-paper.html ". EXTERNAL
Floyd, S., "TCP and Explicit Congestion Notification", ACM Computer Communication Review, V. 24 N. 5, October 1994, p. 10-23. URL " ftp://ftp.ee.lbl.gov/papers/tcp_ecn.4.ps.Z ". EXTERNAL
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