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RFC 8511
Title: TCP Alternative Backoff with ECN (ABE)
Author: N. Khademi,
M. Welzl,
G. Armitage,
G. Fairhurst
Status: Experimental
Stream: IETF
Date: December 2018
Mailbox: naeemk@ifi.uio.no,
michawe@ifi.uio.no,
garmitage@netflix.com,
gorry@erg.abdn.ac.uk
Pages: 12
Characters: 27408
Updates/Obsoletes/SeeAlso: None
I-D Tag: draft-ietf-tcpm-alternativebackoff-ecn-12.txt
URL: https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc8511
DOI: 10.17487/RFC8511
Active Queue Management (AQM) mechanisms allow for burst tolerance
while enforcing short queues to minimise the time that packets spend
enqueued at a bottleneck. This can cause noticeable performance
degradation for TCP connections traversing such a bottleneck,
especially if there are only a few flows or their bandwidth-delay
product (BDP) is large. The reception of a Congestion Experienced
(CE) Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN) mark indicates that an
AQM mechanism is used at the bottleneck, and the bottleneck network
queue is therefore likely to be short. Feedback of this signal
allows the TCP sender-side ECN reaction in congestion avoidance to
reduce the Congestion Window (cwnd) by a smaller amount than the
congestion control algorithm's reaction to inferred packet loss.
Therefore, this specification defines an experimental change to the
TCP reaction specified in RFC 3168, as permitted by RFC 8311.
This document is a product of the TCP Maintenance and Minor Extensions Working Group of the IETF.
EXPERIMENTAL: This memo defines an Experimental Protocol for the
Internet community. It does not specify an Internet standard of any
kind. Discussion and suggestions for improvement are requested.
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