TCP Congestion Control

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Publisher: IETF
Doc Type: Standard
Pages: 18
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. This document obsoletes RFC 2581. [STANDARDS-TRACK]
Publication Date: 2009-09-01
Status Note: Draft Standard
DOI: 10.17487/RFC5681
Link: https://doi.org/10.17487/RFC5681
Author(s): Mark Allman
Dr. Vern Paxson
Ethan Blanton
Keyword(s): Slow Start, Congestion Avoidance, Fast Retransmit, Fast Recovery

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IETF RFC 793 [Superseded*]
IETF RFC 1122 [Active*]
IETF RFC 1191 [Active*]
IETF RFC 2119 [Active*]

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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
Savage, S., Cardwell, N., Wetherall, D., and T. Anderson, "TCP Congestion Control With a Misbehaving Receiver", ACM Computer Communication Review, 29(5), October 1999. 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
Chiu, D. and R. Jain, "Analysis of the Increase/Decrease Algorithms for Congestion Avoidance in Computer Networks", Journal of Computer Networks and ISDN Systems, vol. 17, no. 1, pp. 1-14, June 1989. EXTERNAL
Paxson, V., "End-to-End Internet Packet Dynamics", Proceedings of SIGCOMM '97, Cannes, France, Sep. 1997. EXTERNAL
Wright, G. and W. Stevens, "TCP/IP Illustrated, Volume 2: The Implementation", Addison-Wesley, 1995. EXTERNAL
Mathis, M. and J. Mahdavi, "Forward Acknowledgment: Refining TCP Congestion Control", Proceedings of SIGCOMM'96, August, 1996, Stanford, CA. Available from http://www.psc.edu/networking/papers/papers.html 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
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
Hughes, A., Touch, J., and J. Heidemann, "Issues in TCP Slow-Start Restart After Idle", Work in Progress, March 1998. EXTERNAL
Stevens, W., "TCP/IP Illustrated, Volume 1: The Protocols", Addison-Wesley, 1994. EXTERNAL
IETF RFC 813 [Superseded*]
IETF RFC 2001 [Superseded*]
IETF RFC 2018 [Active*]
IETF RFC 2414 [Superseded*]
IETF RFC 2525 [Active*]
IETF RFC 2581 [Superseded*]
IETF RFC 2883 [Active*]
IETF RFC 2988 [Superseded*]
IETF RFC 3042 [Active*]
IETF RFC 3168 [Active*]
IETF RFC 3390 [Active*]
RFC3465 — RFC3465 EXTERNAL
IETF RFC 3517 [Superseded*]
RFC3782 — RFC3782 EXTERNAL
IETF RFC 4821 [Active*]

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IETF RFC 5927 [Active*]
IETF RFC 6298 [Active*]
IETF RFC 6937 [Superseded*]
IETF RFC 7323 [Active*]
IETF RFC 7413 [Active*]
IETF RFC 8085 [Active*]
IETF RFC 9000 [Active*]
IETF RFC 9293 [Active*]