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IETF RFC 5348
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TCP Friendly Rate Control (TFRC): Protocol Specification

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Publisher
IETF
Doc Type
Standard
Pages
58
Abstract
This document specifies TCP Friendly Rate Control (TFRC). TFRC is a congestion control mechanism for unicast flows operating in a best-effort Internet environment. It is reasonably fair when competing for bandwidth with TCP flows, but has a much lower variation of throughput over time compared with TCP, making it more suitable for applications such as streaming media where a relatively smooth sending rate is of importance. This document obsoletes RFC 3448 and updates RFC 4342. [STANDARDS-TRACK]
Publication Date
2008-09-01
Status Note
Proposed Standard
DOI
10.17487/RFC5348
Link
https://doi.org/10.17487/RFC5348
Author(s)
Sally Floyd
Mark J. Handley
Jitendra Padhye
Joerg Widmer
Keyword(s)
TFRC, Congestion Control
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  • Floyd, S., and K. Fall, Promoting the Use of End-to-End Congestion Control in the Internet, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, August 1999. EXTERNAL
  • Padhye, J. and Firoiu, V. and Towsley, D. and Kurose, J., "Modeling TCP Throughput: A Simple Model and its Empirical Validation", Proc ACM SIGCOMM 1998. EXTERNAL
  • Balakrishnan, H., Rahul, H., and Seshan, S., "An Integrated Congestion Management Architecture for Internet Hosts," Proc. ACM SIGCOMM, Cambridge, MA, September 1999. EXTERNAL
  • S. Floyd, M. Handley, J. Padhye, and J. Widmer, "Equation-Based Congestion Control for Unicast Applications: the Extended Version", ICSI tech report TR-00-03, March 2000. EXTERNAL
  • S. Floyd, M. Handley, J. Padhye, and J. Widmer, "Equation-Based Congestion Control for Unicast Applications", August 2000, Proc SIGCOMM 2000. EXTERNAL
  • A. Medina, M. Allman, and S. Floyd, "Measuring the Evolution of Transport Protocols in the Internet", ACM Computer Communications Review, April 2005. EXTERNAL
  • E. Kohler, S. Floyd, and A. Sathiaseelan, "Faster Restart for TCP Friendly Rate Control (TFRC)", Work in Progress, November 2007. EXTERNAL
  • Floyd, S., and E. Kohler, "Profile for DCCP Congestion Control ID 4: the Small-Packet Variant of TFRC Congestion Control", Work in Progress, February 2008. EXTERNAL
  • Widmer, J., "Equation-Based Congestion Control", Diploma Thesis, University of Mannheim, February 2000, < http://www.icir.org/tfrc/ >. EXTERNAL
  • IETF RFC 2140 [Superseded*]
  • IETF RFC 2581 [Superseded*]
  • IETF RFC 2861 [Superseded*]
  • IETF RFC 2988 [Superseded*]
  • IETF RFC 3168 [Active*]
  • IETF RFC 3390 [Active*]
  • IETF RFC 3540 [Active*]
  • IETF RFC 4340 [Active*]
  • IETF RFC 4342 [Active*]
  • RFC4828 — RFC4828 EXTERNAL
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