Early Retransmit for TCP and Stream Control Transmission Protocol
RFC 5827, “Early Retransmit for TCP and Stream Control Transmission Protocol”, is an Experimental document published in April 2010 by M. Allman, K. Avrachenkov, U. Ayesta, J. Blanton, P. Hurtig. The canonical text is published by the RFC Editor.
Abstract
This document proposes a new mechanism for TCP and Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) that can be used to recover lost segments when a connection's congestion window is small. The "Early Retransmit" mechanism allows the transport to reduce, in certain special circumstances, the number of duplicate acknowledgments required to trigger a fast retransmission. This allows the transport to use fast retransmit to recover segment losses that would otherwise require a lengthy retransmission timeout. [STANDARDS-TRACK]
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