The Addition of Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN) to IP

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Publisher: IETF
Doc Type: Standard
Pages: 63
Abstract: This memo specifies the incorporation of ECN (Explicit Congestion Notification) to TCP and IP, including ECN's use of two bits in the IP header. [STANDARDS-TRACK]
Publication Date: 2001-09-01
Status Note: Proposed Standard
DOI: 10.17487/RFC3168
Link: https://doi.org/10.17487/RFC3168
Author(s): Dr. K. K. Ramakrishnan
Sally Floyd
David L. Black
Keyword(s): IP, ECN

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Stefan Savage, Neal Cardwell, David Wetherall, and Tom Anderson, TCP Congestion Control with a Misbehaving Receiver, ACM Computer Communications Review, October 1999. EXTERNAL
"The ECN Web Page", URL " http://www.aciri.org/floyd/ecn.html ". Reference for informational purposes only. EXTERNAL
Floyd, S., "TCP and Explicit Congestion Notification", ACM Computer Communication Review, V. 24 N. 5, October 1994, p. 10-23. EXTERNAL
Lin, D., and Morris, R., "Dynamics of Random Early Detection", SIGCOMM '97, September 1997. EXTERNAL
Krishnan, H., "Analyzing Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN) benefits for TCP", Master's thesis, UCLA, 1998. Citation for EXTERNAL
Jitendra Padhye and Sally Floyd, "Identifying the TCP Behavior of Web Servers", ICSI TR-01-002, February 2001. URL " http://www.aciri.org/tbit/ ". 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
S. McCanne, V. Jacobson, and M. Vetterli, "Receiver- driven Layered Multicast", SIGCOMM '96, August 1996, pp. 117-130. EXTERNAL
ECN-under-Linux Unofficial Vendor Support Page, URL " http://gtf.org/garzik/ecn/ ". Reference for informational purposes only. 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. EXTERNAL
Floyd, S., and Fall, K., "Promoting the Use of End-to- End Congestion Control in the Internet", IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, August 1999. 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. Reference for informational purposes only. 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
V. Jacobson, "Congestion Avoidance and Control", Proc. ACM SIGCOMM '88, pp. 314-329. EXTERNAL
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