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IETF RFC 7661
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Updating TCP to Support Rate-Limited Traffic

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Publisher
IETF
Doc Type
Experimental
Pages
21
Abstract
This document provides a mechanism to address issues that arise when TCP is used for traffic that exhibits periods where the sending rate is limited by the application rather than the congestion window. It provides an experimental update to TCP that allows a TCP sender to restart quickly following a rate-limited interval. This method is expected to benefit applications that send rate-limited traffic using TCP while also providing an appropriate response if congestion is experienced. This document also evaluates the Experimental specification of TCP Congestion Window Validation (CWV) defined in RFC 2861 and concludes that RFC 2861 sought to address important issues but failed to deliver a widely used solution. This document therefore reclassifies the status of RFC 2861 from Experimental to Historic. This document obsoletes RFC 2861.
Publication Date
2015-10-01
Status Note
Experimental
DOI
10.17487/RFC7661
Link
https://doi.org/10.17487/RFC7661
Author(s)
Gorry Fairhurst
Arjuna Sathiaseelan
Raffaello Secchi
Keyword(s)
CWV, TCP
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  • 10.1145-1064413.1064419 — All05 EXTERNAL
  • 10.4236-ijcns.2010.37078 — Bis10 EXTERNAL
  • IETF.draft-hughes-restart-00 — Hug01 EXTERNAL
  • Biswas, I., "Internet Congestion Control for Variable-Rate TCP Traffic", PhD Thesis, School of Engineering, University of Aberdeen, 2011. EXTERNAL
  • Liu, D., Allman, M., Jin, S., and L. Wang, "Congestion Control without a Startup Phase", 5th International Workshop on Protocols for Fast Long-Distance Networks (PFLDnet), Los Angeles, California, February 2007. EXTERNAL
  • Sathiaseelan, A., Secchi, R., Fairhurst, G., and I. Biswas, "Enhancing TCP Performance to support Variable- Rate Traffic", 2nd Capacity Sharing Workshop, ACM CoNEXT, Nice, France, December 2012. EXTERNAL
  • Hossain, Z., "A Study of Mechanisms to Support Variable- Rate Internet Applications over a Multi-service Satellite Platform", PhD Thesis, School of Engineering, University of Aberdeen, January 2015. EXTERNAL
  • Biswas, I. and G. Fairhurst, "A Practical Evaluation of Congestion Window Validation Behaviour", 9th Annual Postgraduate Symposium in the Convergence of Telecommunications, Networking and Broadcasting (PGNet), Liverpool, UK, 2008. EXTERNAL
  • IETF RFC 7230 [Superseded*]
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