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IETF RFC 2581
[SUPERSEDED]

TCP Congestion Control

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Publisher
IETF
Doc Type
Standard
Pages
14
Abstract
This document defines TCP's four intertwined congestion control algorithms: slow start, congestion avoidance, fast retransmit, and fast recovery. In addition, the document specifies how TCP should begin transmission after a relatively long idle period, as well as discussing various acknowledgment generation methods. [STANDARDS-TRACK]
Publication Date
1999-04-01
Status Note
Proposed Standard
DOI
10.17487/RFC2581
Link
https://doi.org/10.17487/RFC2581
Author(s)
Mark Allman
Dr. Vern Paxson
W. Richard Stevens
Keyword(s)
TCP-CC, TCP, Congestion Control
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Bibliographic Reference(s)

  • Mathis, M. and J. Mahdavi, "Forward Acknowledgment: Refining TCP Congestion Control", Proceedings of SIGCOMM'96, August, 1996, Stanford, CA. Available fromhttp://www.psc.edu/networking/papers/papers.html EXTERNAL
  • Hoe, J., "Improving the Start-up Behavior of a Congestion Control Scheme for TCP", In ACM SIGCOMM, August 1996. EXTERNAL
  • Jacobson, V., "Congestion Avoidance and Control", Computer Communication Review, vol. 18, no. 4, pp. 314-329, Aug. 1988. ftp://ftp.ee.lbl.gov/papers/congavoid.ps.Z . EXTERNAL
  • Fall, K. and S. Floyd, "Simulation-based Comparisons of Tahoe, Reno and SACK TCP", Computer Communication Review, July 1996. ftp://ftp.ee.lbl.gov/papers/sacks.ps.Z . EXTERNAL
  • Jacobson, V., "Modified TCP Congestion Avoidance Algorithm", end2end-interest mailing list, April 30, 1990. ftp://ftp.isi.edu/end2end/end2end-interest-1990.mail . EXTERNAL
  • Paxson, V., "End-to-End Internet Packet Dynamics", Proceedings of SIGCOMM '97, Cannes, France, Sep. 1997. EXTERNAL
  • Floyd, S., "TCP and Successive Fast Retransmits. Technical report", October 1994. ftp://ftp.ee.lbl.gov/papers/fastretrans.ps . EXTERNAL
  • Wright, G. and W. Stevens, "TCP/IP Illustrated, Volume 2: The Implementation", Addison-Wesley, 1995. EXTERNAL
  • Hughes, A., Touch, J. and J. Heidemann, "Issues in TCP Slow-Start Restart After Idle", Work in Progress. EXTERNAL
  • Mathis, M. and J. Mahdavi, "TCP Rate-Halving with Bounding Parameters", Technical report. Available from http://www.psc.edu/networking/papers/FACKnotes/current . EXTERNAL
  • Stevens, W., "TCP/IP Illustrated, Volume 1: The Protocols", Addison-Wesley, 1994. EXTERNAL
  • IETF RFC 793 [Superseded*]
  • IETF RFC 813 [Superseded*]
  • IETF RFC 1122 [Active*]
  • IETF RFC 1191 [Active*]
  • IETF RFC 2001 [Superseded*]
  • IETF RFC 2018 [Active*]
  • IETF RFC 2119 [Active*]
  • IETF RFC 2414 [Superseded*]
  • IETF RFC 2525 [Active*]
  • IETF RFC 2582 [Superseded*]
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