TCP Congestion Control with Appropriate Byte Counting
RFC 3465, “TCP Congestion Control with Appropriate Byte Counting”, is an Experimental document published in February 2003 by M. Allman. The canonical text is published by the RFC Editor.
Abstract
This document proposes a small modification to the way TCP increases its congestion window. Rather than the traditional method of increasing the congestion window by a constant amount for each arriving acknowledgment, the document suggests basing the increase on the number of previously unacknowledged bytes each ACK covers. This change improves the performance of TCP, as well as closes a security hole TCP receivers can use to induce the sender into increasing the sending rate too rapidly. This memo defines an Experimental Protocol for the Internet community.
What “Experimental” means
Describes a specification that is part of a research or development effort, published so the community can gain experience with it.
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