RFC 3135 · INFORMATIONAL · 2001

Performance Enhancing Proxies Intended to Mitigate Link-Related Degradations

Overview

RFC 3135, “Performance Enhancing Proxies Intended to Mitigate Link-Related Degradations”, is an Informational document published in June 2001 by J. Border, M. Kojo, J. Griner, G. Montenegro, Z. Shelby. The canonical text is published by the RFC Editor.

Abstract

This document is a survey of Performance Enhancing Proxies (PEPs) often employed to improve degraded TCP performance caused by characteristics of specific link environments, for example, in satellite, wireless WAN, and wireless LAN environments. This memo provides information for the Internet community.

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What “Informational” means

Published for the general information of the community. It does not define an IETF standard and carries no standards-track status.

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