TCP Congestion Window Validation

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Publisher: IETF
Doc Type: Specification
Pages: 11
Abstract: This document describes a simple modification to TCP's congestion control algorithms to decay the congestion window cwnd after the transition from a sufficiently-long application-limited period, while using the slow-start threshold ssthresh to save information about the previous value of the congestion window. This memo defines an Experimental Protocol for the Internet community.
Publication Date: 2000-06-01
Status Note: Historic
DOI: 10.17487/RFC2861
Link: https://doi.org/10.17487/RFC2861
Author(s): Mark J. Handley
Jitendra Padhye
Sally Floyd
Keyword(s): TCP

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Fall, K., and Floyd, S., Simulation-based Comparisons of Tahoe, Reno, and SACK TCP, Computer Communication Review, V. 26 N. 3, July 1996, pp. 5-21. URL " http://www.aciri.org/floyd/papers.html ". EXTERNAL
Amy Hughes, Joe Touch, John Heidemann, "Issues in TCP Slow-Start Restart After Idle", Work in Progress. EXTERNAL
Jacobson, V., Congestion Avoidance and Control, Originally from Proceedings of SIGCOMM '88 (Palo Alto, CA, Aug. 1988), and revised in 1992. URL " http://www- nrg.ee.lbl.gov/nrg-papers.html ". EXTERNAL
Luigi Rizzo, "Dummynet and Forward Error Correction", Freenix 98, June 1998, New Orleans. URL " http://info.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/ip_dummynet/ ". EXTERNAL
NS, the UCB/LBNL/VINT Network Simulator. URL " http://www-mash.cs.berkeley.edu/ns/ ". EXTERNAL
Mark Handley, Jitendra Padhye, Sally Floyd, TCP Congestion Window Validation, UMass CMPSCI Technical Report 99-77, September 1999. URL " ftp://www- net.cs.umass.edu/pub/Handley99-tcpq-tr-99-77.ps.gz ". EXTERNAL
R. Jain, S. Kalyanaraman, R. Goyal, S. Fahmy, and F. Lu, A Fix for Source End System Rule 5, AF-TM 95-1660, December 1995, URL " http://www.netlab.ohio- state.edu/~jain/atmf/af_rl52.htm ". EXTERNAL
Raj Jain, Shiv Kalyanaraman, Rohit Goyal, Sonia Fahmy, and Fang Lu, Comments on "Use-it or Lose-it", ATM Forum Document Number: ATM Forum/96-0178, URL " http://www.netlab.ohio- state.edu/~jain/atmf/af_rl5b2.htm ". EXTERNAL
Matt Mathis, Jeff Semke, Jamshid Mahdavi, and Kevin Lahey, The Rate-Halving Algorithm for TCP Congestion Control, June 1999. URL " http://www.psc.edu/networking/ftp/papers/draft- ratehalving.txt ". EXTERNAL
Vikram Visweswaraiah and John Heidemann. Improving Restart of Idle TCP Connections, Technical Report 97-661, University of Southern California, November, 1997. EXTERNAL
IETF RFC 2581 [Superseded*]

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IETF RFC 2914 [Active*]
IETF RFC 3155 [Active*]
IETF RFC 3539 [Active*]
IETF RFC 4341 [Active*]
IETF RFC 5348 [Active*]