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RFC 5681
Title: TCP Congestion Control
Author: M. Allman, V. Paxson,
E. Blanton
Status: Standards Track
Date: September 2009
Mailbox: mallman@icir.org,
vern@icir.org,
eblanton@cs.purdue.edu
Pages: 18
Characters: 44339
Obsoletes: RFC2581
I-D Tag: draft-ietf-tcpm-rfc2581bis-07.txt
URL: http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc5681.txt
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]
This document is a product of the TCP Maintenance and Minor Extensions Working Group of the IETF.
This is now a Draft Standard Protocol.
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